International Webinar 2023 - Visiting Lecture with Lecturer from Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University (Ukraine) – Part 12

Perseverance, nicknamed Percy, is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the Jezero crater on Mars as part of the NASA Mars 2020 mission. It was manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched on July 30, 2020, at 11:50 UTC. Confirmation that the rover successfully landed on Mars was received on February 18, 2021, at 20:55 UTC. As of February 22, 2023, Perseverance has been active on Mars for 714 sols (734 Earth days, or 2 years and 4 days) since its landing. After the rover's arrival, NASA named the landing site Octavia E. Butler Landing.


The Perseverance is similar in design to its predecessor rover, Curiosity, although it has been moderately upgraded. It carries seven main payload instruments, nineteen cameras, and two microphones.


Rover also brought the Ingenuity mini-helicopter to Mars, an experimental and technology test craft that made its first powered flight to another planet on April 19, 2021. As of February 16, 2023, it had made 43 successful flights. Ingenuity's 25th successful flight, which occurred on April 8, 2022, saw the helicopter set new records for speed and highest distance traveled during a single flight.


The rover's goals include identifying ancient Martian environments capable of supporting life, searching for evidence of earlier microbial life present in those environments, collecting rock and soil samples to store on the Martian surface, and testing oxygen production from the Martian atmosphere to prepare future crews. mission.


Despite the huge success of the Curiosity rover landing in August 2012, NASA's Mars Exploration Program was in a state of limbo in the early 2010s. Budget cuts forced NASA to pull out of a planned collaboration with the European Space Agency that included exploratory missions. In the summer of 2012, a program that had been launching missions to Mars every two years suddenly found itself having no approved missions after 2013.


In 2011, the Planetary Science Decadal Survey, a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine containing a series of influential recommendations made by the planetary science community, stated that a top priority for NASA's planetary exploration program in the decade between 2013 and 2022 should be embarking on a Giveback campaign. NASA-ESA Mars samples, a four-mission project to safely store, retrieve, launch, and return surface samples of Mars to Earth. The report states that NASA should invest in a sample-caching rover as the first step in this effort, with the aim of keeping costs below US$2.5 billion.


Following the success of the Curiosity rover and in response to decadal survey recommendations, NASA announced its intention to launch a new Mars rover mission in 2020 at the American Geophysical Union conference in December 2012.


Although initially hesitant to commit to such an ambitious sample storage capability (and subsequent follow-up missions), the NASA-convened science definition team for the Mars 2020 project released a report in July 2013 that the mission should "select and store an attractive suite of samples in restoreable cache."


The material above was delivered by a presenter from Ukraine in a visiting lecturer held by STEKOM University in collaboration with Universities from Ukraine. The title of the presentation is "Learning Skills in 21st Century Education and Work Environment".


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