Perseverance

The mars perseverance rover launched on July 30, 2020 While the outside might look like her predecessor’s, Perseverance has a lot of upgrades from the Curiosity rover. First and foremost, her payload is about 270 pounds more than curiosity’s, which means more instruments. Perseverance has about 50% more instruments than curiosity. One of the experiments is the ingenuity helicopter. The helicopter, if successful, will be the first powered flight on another planet other than ours. The landing technique, has a few main upgrades from curiosity’s landing. It still uses the sky crane landing. But the difference is the fact that while perseverance was landing, it was using terrain relative navigation, taking pictures of the surface while it was going down. This helped the rover land near interesting places, and. The perseverance rover landed on mars and started it’s operations and will continue until it’s battery loses power