NASA's Perseverance rover has climbed to the top of Mars' Jezero Crater after three and a half months of travel, overcoming a 500-meter climb and a 20 percent gradient.
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The Perseverance rover has reached the top of the Jezero crater on Mars, climbing 500 meters (higher than the height of the Empire State Building). It took about three and a half months to do this . He had to climb often steep slopes. Along the way, Perseverance made stops to conduct scientific observations in interesting places. The rover encountered some of the most dangerous terrain it has traveled since arriving on Mars.
NASA mission managers said that the rover, which set off on its journey 3.5 months ago, first saw its destination on December 10. From there, the mobile laboratory will begin its fifth scientific campaign, following a route called the “Northern Ring” that will last several years.
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Since landing on Jezero in February 2021, Perseverance has completed four science campaigns: “Crater Floor, Fan Front, Upper Fan, and Margin Unit. The science team is calling Perseverance's fifth campaign the “Northern Rim” because its route covers the northern part of the southwestern part of the Jezero Rim. During the first year of the Northern Rim campaign, the rover is expected to visit up to four sites of geological interest, take several samples, and walk approximately 6.4 kilometers.
“The Northern Rim campaign provides us with a whole new scientific opportunity as Perseverance delves into fundamentally new geology. It marks our transition from rocks that partially filled Jezero Crater when it formed from a massive impact some 3.9 billion years ago to rocks from deep within Mars that were ejected upward to form the crater's rim after the impact,” said Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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