2024-02-01 01:10:00
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1 February 2024 08:10 a.m.
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It’s been three years since the robotic rover. Perseverance (Perseverance) traveled to explore Mars together with the Ingenuity helicopter, which made its 72nd and final flight over the surface of Mars on January 18. and ended the flight successfully which Perseverance It’s regarding the size of a car and is packed with seven scientific instruments, including the RIMFAX radar, which uses radar signals every 10 centimeters on the surface of the planet. It now provides data. valuable for mapping the vibrations reflected from a depth of approximately 20 meters beneath the surface of the Jerezo Crater on Mars.
Radar maps have revealed the presence of sediments that had been suspected in past studies of Mars. But this has never been confirmed before. The presence of sediment indicates that the Jezero Basin was once flooded and formed a giant lake. Sediments are carried along rivers and form large deltas, similar to those on Earth. before sediment accumulates and later eroded from erosion in two different periods. Discovery of ancient lake sediments beneath Perseverance site It’s possible that the robot craft will scrape up the microbial fossils. But it must be proven until samples are returned to Earth.
However, life on earth depends on water to survive. If there is evidence that there really is water on Mars It may be an important clue that the Red Planet was once inhabited by life. Or living things may still be there.
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