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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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1227 - Traverse Map (with zoom inset) (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by paulhammond5155 to c/perseverancerover
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Shows the path (with scale) of the drive on 1227. North is up on all of the JPL/NASA mission maps (unless otherwise stated)

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[–] paulhammond5155 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sojourner and Zhurong? :)

PrOP-M - 0 ft

Sojourner - 330 ft

Zhurong - 6,302 ft (~1.2 miles)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks! I wasn't familiar with PrOP-M. What a whacky method of locomotion it would have had!

[–] paulhammond5155 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AFAIK - The Russian space agency never provided an update on them. Pity, I'd like to have seen them operate ☺️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It sounds like of the four missions containing PrOP-M rovers, only Mars 3 made it to a soft landing on the surface.

The lander began transmitting to the Mars 3 orbiter 90 seconds after landing. After 20 seconds, transmission stopped for unknown reasons.

Due to communication loss it is unknown whether the rover was deployed.

[–] paulhammond5155 2 points 3 months ago

I guess the world will have to wait for those future boots on the ground at the Mars 3 landing site to see if the rover was deployed. Deep down I hope it did get deployed and roved, even it was only a few centimeters / inches. Those boots will be long after I am pushing up the daisies, as I'm already older than dirt... :) But the young ones that follow these exploits on Mars will get to see what happened... :)