On the 4th, NASA’s Mars exploration rover’Perciviarance’ was photographed with a camera attached to the rover during a test drive. On the surface, there are clear marks of the wheels of the persivirance. Provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech
The US Mars exploration rover’Perciviarance’, which landed on the surface of Mars on the 18th of last month, successfully completed its first test run on Mars. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) revealed that Percivirence succeeded in moving 6.5m for 33 minutes from’Example Crater’, the landing site on the 4th, and released the photo on the website on the 5th (local time).
Percivirence’s first test run was under remote command from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which oversees the Mars exploration mission. After moving forward 4m, the Persistence changed its direction to 150 degrees to the left and succeeded neatly up to 2.5m backward. In the photos released by NASA, the traces of Percivirence’s wheels on Mars’ surface are clear.
A photo of the Mars exploration rover’Pacific Virence’ released by NASA on the 4th. The appearance of the movement of the wheel is contained as it is. Provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech
“We were driving on Mars at the same time as we were driving on Earth,” said Anais Zarypian, JPL’s personal mobility engineer. “We’ve been working for this moment for years.”
NASA has also released a picture of Percivirence’s robotic arm in action. This photo was taken on the 3rd and shows Percivirence bending and rotating the robot arm.
“The first robotic arm test of Percivirence was also very successful,” said Robert Hog, deputy director of Percivirence. I said.
He added, “It is the best day to see that the muscles of the robot arm are moving flexibly and working perfectly.” To date, Percivirence has sent more than 7,000 photos to Earth.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) also unveiled the Mars rover’Purcivirance’ operating a robotic arm. This photo confirms that the Percivirence robot arm is operating normally, such as bending or rotating. Provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech
Persistence, the size of a passenger car, can travel about 200m per day on average. NASA is scheduled to undergo additional driving tests in the near future ahead of Percivirence’s full-scale exploration of Mars. Persivirance travels a total of 25 km over the next two years, collecting soil and rocks on Mars, and is tasked with finding traces of life billions of years ago.
Meanwhile, NASA has given the new name’Octavia Butler’ at the touchdown point of Percivirence. Butler is an American science fiction writer who died in 2006 and is from Pasadena, California, where JPL is located. Butler is the first African-American woman to win the prestigious Hugo Prize, called the’Nobel Prize in SF’, and the first SF author to win the’MacArthur Fellowship’.