JAKARTA – NASA has successfully launched its ambitious space mission to land a sophisticated rover robot named Perseverance to Mars. Using the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket, the launch was carried out from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United States (US).
Through its live stream, the rocket launch was broadcast at around 07.00 EDT or 18.00 WIB. The rocket launch process is broadcast via the official NASA channel on YouTube as well as live tweets from the social media network Twitter.
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Reporting from the page SpaceThe weather conditions around the launch site were sunny and slightly cloudy. Later, after launching into orbit, this rocket will travel for seven months to get to Mars with a distance of 469 million km.
Perseverance will be NASA’s first mission to bring back rock samples that were brought back on previous missions. In addition, NASA will also re-explore the red planet to find evidence of life on Mars.
For this launch mission, NASA had to spend 2.4 billion US dollars, or around Rp35 trillion. The budget was spent on building the Perseverance rover robot and the costs of its launch mission.
🚀 We have LIFTOFF to Mars! The @ulalaunch Atlas V takes flight with our @NASAPersevere rover. The #CountdownToMars continues as Perseverance begins her 7-month journey to the Red Planet! pic.twitter.com/3RTL1CR4WS
– NASA (@NASA) July 30, 2020
Later, Perseverance will replace the task of the Curiosity rover, which NASA launched a few years ago to Mars. This state-of-the-art rover is equipped with the latest instruments to run a number of experiments, including 43 sample tubes that will be filled with material from Mars to be sent back to Earth on the next mission.
This sophisticated robot will land in Jezero Crater, an area with a history of water, explorers will start a mission to find signs of ancient microbial life. In exploring Mars, the Perseverance robot does not go alone. He is also accompanied by an experimental drone called Ingenuity.
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