Perseverance made landing on Mars

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Frame from video: @Nasa / Twitter.com

In the American Aerospace Agency (NASA) published frames of how Marshod Perseverance arrived at Mars.

Perseverance Marshow arrived at Mars to search for traces of extraterrestrial life and studying the opportunity to live a person outside the Earth. The device called Perseverance, which in Russian can be translated as "perseverance", entered the atmosphere of Mars at a speed of about 19 km / h. After that, his movement slowed down significantly. The parachute of the apparatus was revealed, then the protective cover was separated. Then, to reduce the velocity of the device, the brake motors of the planting module were turned on. On the site NASA was a live broadcast.

PCU message: "Confirm, Perseverance made a landing on Mars. The probe transmits a signal. "

This announcement was encountered by ovations. Nasa reported that the device had already sent two pictures from the surface of Mars.

Planting the spacecraft was held in automatic mode. She lasted about 7 minutes and took place at 23:55 Moscow time. Manually do it impossible: the signal from Mars goes to the ground with a 11-minute delay.

Perseverance sank to Mars in the area of ​​Crater Jeretero. After that, it is expected to check all its systems and equipment within a few months from the ground.

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The device is equipped with twenty camcorders, a microphone, which will allow for the first time to hear the red planet, as well as a drone.

Recall, in July, with a difference in a few days, the Arab Emirates sent his missions to Mars, then China, and then the United States. And next year, Roscosmos and European Space Agency will finally be launching her roskosmos. The launch was already postponed twice - in 2018 and 2020. The Russian-European project "EKZOMARS" suggests that the carrier rocket and the acceleration unit will be Russian. The landing platform with the name "Cossack", which will turn into a semblance of a stationary base, also Russian. Maroon itself - European. There will be 9 European scientific instruments and 13 Russian.

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