"I wanna be Perseverance!"
Mission Name: Perseverance, the digital single
Rover Name: Perseverance: 10 ft. long [not including the arm], 9 ft. wide, 7 ft. tall (3m. long x 2.7m. wide x 2.2m. tall) and 2,260 lbs. (1,025 kg)
Main Job: To search for signs of ancient life by collecting samples of rock and regolith (Martian soil) for return to Earth
Launch date: July 30, 2020
Landing: February 18, 2021
Landing Site: Jezero Crater, Mars
Timeline: Spend at least 1 Mars year (about two Earth years) exploring the landing site area
Instruments: Seven – Mastcam-Z (panoramic and stereophonic imaging of landscape with zoom), SuperCam (can provide distance imaging, chemical analyses and mineralogy), X-ray Lithochemistry [PIXL] (to study the Martian surface), SHERLOC (spectrometer to image and map minerals and organic compounds on the surface), MOXIE (instrument producing oxygen from Martian atmosphere), MEDA (measures temp, wind speed/direction, pressure, relative humidity, dust size and shape), RIMFAX (subsurface radar)
Program Management: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA; George Tahu is the program executive and Mitchell Schulte is program scientist at NASA; John McNamee is project manager and Ken Farley is project scientist at JPL.
For more information about the Mars 2020 mission:
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
released June 17, 2022
The Space Outs are Spencer (voice, synthesizers, computer programming, background vocals), Alien (bass synthesizers, guitars, background vocals), Neona (synthesizers, background vocals), Tracy (drums, rhythm programming, background vocals), Paratelogram (turntablism), The Daydream Machine 2022 (AI interface)
THE SPACE OUTS - PERSEVERANCE (digital single)
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