NASA's Perseverance Drives on Mars' Terrain for First Time

NASA's Perseverance Drives on Mars' Terrain for First Time

Space Daily

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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 05, 2021

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover performed its first drive on Mars March 4, covering 21.3 feet (6.5 meters) across the Martian landscape. The drive served as a mobility test that marks just one of many milestones as team members check out and calibrate every system, subsystem, and instrument on Perseverance. Once the rover begins pursuing its science goals, regular commutes extending 656 feet

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