{"id":87782,"date":"2020-07-31T05:59:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T10:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=87782"},"modified":"2020-07-31T05:59:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T10:59:40","slug":"auto-draft-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/07\/31\/auto-draft-122\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Rover En Route to Mars to Look for Signs of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 The U.S. has launched its next-generation Mars rover in search of potential signs of life on the red planet.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s latest rover, Perseverance<\/em>, launched at 11:50 GMT Thursday from Cape Canaveral in the southeastern state of Florida.<\/p>\n

The robotic explorer was propelled into space by an Atlas 5 rocket operated by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between private aerospace companies Boeing and Lockheed<\/p>\n

The rover is scheduled to land on Mars in February at the bottom of a 250-meter crater that was a lake some 3.5 billion years ago. Scientists believe the site could hold evidence of possible past microbial life.<\/p>\n

Scientists have debated for decades whether there was once life on Mars, which was more hospitable to life billions of years ago.<\/p>\n

Perseverance\u2019s<\/em> landing on the solar system\u2019s second smallest planet will involve a complex set of maneuvers that NASA engineers call the \u201cseven minutes of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n

During that period, the rover descends through the atmosphere in extremely hot and high-speed conditions and deploys a set of supersonic parachutes before mini rockets ignite, allowing for a soft landing.<\/p>\n

The car-sized Perseverance<\/em> will also deploy a mini helicopter named Ingenuity and test equipment for future human missions to the planet.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s launch from Earth to Mars is the third in July. China and the United Arab Emirates launched probes earlier in the month.<\/p>\n

Perseverance<\/em> is the latest U.S. lander headed to Mars. NASA\u2019s Sojourner landed in 1997 and Spirit and Opportunity have found signs of ancient water formations. NASA also landed Pathfinder<\/em>, Phoenix<\/em> and InSight<\/em> on Earth\u2019s planetary neighbor.<\/p>\n

The U.S. plans to send astronauts to Mars sometime in the 2030s. To help pave the way, Perseverance will try to convert elements of the carbon dioxide-rich Martian atmosphere to produce oxygen for future astronauts or to produce fuel for rockets that could be launched from the surface of Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 The U.S. has launched its next-generation Mars rover in search of potential signs of life on the red planet. NASA\u2019s latest rover, Perseverance, launched at 11:50 GMT Thursday from Cape Canaveral in the southeastern state of Florida. The robotic explorer was propelled into space by an Atlas 5 rocket operated by the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}