NASA reveals details of Perseverance rover mission

The Perseverance rover will have to collect 40 soil samples in Jesero Crater, which will have to return to Earth for research in 2031, NASA expert Jeff Gramley said on July 28 at a video conference at the Kennedy Space Flight Center. According to him, first the rover will take soil samples and leave them on the surface of Mars. Then they will be picked up by another rover, which will be launched in 2026. It will install a return stage where the samples will be loaded, and it will deliver them to orbit to the orbital module, and from there they will be directed to Earth, Gramley said. In turn, NASA expert Liza Pratt said that the mission team made every effort not to bring biological samples into samples of Martian soil. To do this, the rover equipment was treated at a temperature above 150 C, and before being sent to Earth, the samples will be placed in carefully isolated titanium containers. Earlier, the news agency reported that the Atlas V launch vehicle with the Perseverance rover will be launched from the cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral on July 30. The spacecraft is due to arrive in Mars in February 2021.