Perseverance Update 11/21

Presentation by Tom Heisey on the Perseverance rover on Mars. In particular, I concentrated on the engineering behind the sample collection and camera systems. I started out exploring the activities, but “fell down the rabbit hole” when I started looking at the stunning engineering behind the systems.

Since the PDF doesn’t include the movies, here are they are:

LINKS

To save you some typing, here are the links from the end of the presentation:

• NASA Mars Exploration site: https://mars.nasa.gov/
• NASA Perseverance Site: https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance
• JPL Perseverance Site https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance-rover
• NASA Ingenuity Site: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/
• ASU Mastcam-Z Site: https://mastcamz.asu.edu/
  • Mastcam-Z Calibration Targets: https://mastcamz.asu.edu/mars-in-full-color/
  • Mastcam-Z Filter sets: https://mastcamz.asu.edu/the-mastcam-z-filter-set-how-perseverance-will-see-the-colors-of-mars/
• Perseverance Raw Camera Feed: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
• Perseverance 3D images https://mars.nasa.gov/3d/images/?page=0&per_page=25&order=pub_date+desc&search=&category=51%3A190&fancybox=true&url_suffix=
  • Requires Red-Blue glasses (available on the web) as anaglyph glasses.
  • This page also has 3D images from other missions.