Mars "Perseverance" Rover

July 28, 2020

Jezero Crater, Landing Site for the Mars Perseverance Rover

This image of Jezero Crater, the landing site for the Mars Perseverance Rover, was taken by instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which regularly takes images of potential landing sites for future missions. NASA chose Jezero crater as the landing site for the Perseverance rover because scientists believe the area was once flooded with water and was home to an ancient river delta.
Jezero crater tells a story of the on-again, off-again nature of the wet past of Mars. More than 3.5 billion years ago, river channels spilled over the crater wall and created a lake. Scientists see evidence that water carried clay minerals from the surrounding area into the crater lake. Conceivably, microbial life could have lived in Jezero during one or more of these wet times. If so, signs of their remains might be found in lakebed or shoreline sediments.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL
Last Updated: July 28, 2020
Editor: Yvette Smith

Mars 2020 Perseverance Exits Safe Mode,
Successfully Heading to Mars


https://blogs.nasa.gov/mars2020/2020/07/31/mars-2020-perseverance-exits-safe-mode-successfully-heading-to-mars/

Vrijeme je epidemije i nitko u ništa ne može više biti siguran, a posebno mi stariji.
Ako ne bude moga update-a neka netko nastavi gdje budem stao.

Age of Jezero crater on Mars

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/37185/age-of-jezero-crater-on-mars

Područje (delta rijeke)  na koje će sletjeti Perseverance.

Detalj..Ovaj dio će najvjerojatnije najprije posjetiti (gore-područje u bijelom krugu).

Pogled s desne strane...

Dio kanjona rijeke...

Rover Perseverance interpolirano ispred ruba nekadašnje riječne delte.
Na temelju toga procjenjujem visinu ruba na nekih 60-70 metara.

Desno nanosi rijeke u Jezero! 

Reakcija Stooke-a (znalac za ovo područje) na objavu ovih fotografija:
"Wow, Sean, your pictures are so good that we don't really need to go there any more"
Slažem se.

PS:
Sean: - Perseverance is scaled according to HiRISE reference

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/follow-nasas-perseverance-rover-in-real-time-on-its-way-to-mars

A prije zilijun godina je krater Jezero izgledao ovako: