Mars 2020DWG 001
Perseverance
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Scale 1:25Units mmSheet 01 / 06000%
01Rocker-bogie, six 52 cm wheels
02Chassis and electronics box
03Sample caching system
04MMRTG, 110 W nuclear power
05High-gain, low-gain and UHF antennas
062.1 m robotic arm and coring drill
07Remote sensing mast, Mastcam-Z
3,0002,7002,200Mars 2020 / Perseverance / Sheet 01 of 06
01NASA JPL, Pasadena
Designthe rover
1,025 kg, 3 m long, six wheels. Every subsystem drawn before anything is cut.
02Assembly, test and launch operations
Assembleand test
Built and tested at JPL, then flown to Kennedy Space Center in February 2020.
03Cape Canaveral, SLC-41
Liftoff
30 July 2020, 7:50 a.m. An Atlas V 541: four solid boosters, a Centaur upper stage, a 5 m fairing.
04Earth to Mars
Seven monthsin a shell
203 days and 472 million km, spinning slowly inside a 4.5 m aeroshell.
05Entry, descent and landing
Seven minutesof terror
Heat shield off, parachute, then a sky crane lowers it on three cables into Jezero Crater. 18 February 2021.
06Jezero Crater, Mars
Drive, drill,cache
It reads the rocks with its mast cameras and drills cores to seal in tubes for a trip back to Earth.
Perseverance: NASA's Mars rover from the drawing board to Jezero Crater, scrubbed by your scroll
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