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MARS 2020

The rotors of the first helicopter to fly on another planet were filled with dust, preventing them from turning
This is not a simulation. The Perseverance robotic all-terrain vehicle and the crane that lowered it photographed each other and the Martian soil in a way that made it possible to document the landing as if it were a landing on Earth. NASA: We wanted to share with the public a once in a lifetime experience * the landing certificate step by step
After the successful landing on Thursday, the engineers began to examine the condition of NASA's persistence vehicle on Mars. Among other things, they published preliminary images from the vehicle's cameras, as well as from the camera of the crane that lowered it to the ground and even from space
The images, in low resolution, were taken by Persistence's road cameras and show the view near the landing area.
Space exploration achieved several milestones in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, including commercial manned space flights and the return of asteroid samples to Earth. Fascinating tasks are expected in 2021, some of which mark breakthroughs
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