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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reaches the Top Rim of the Jezero Crater
- NASA’s Perseverance rover has scaled to the top of the Jezero Crater’s rim, covering 500 vertical meters and making science observations along the way.
- Perseverance will now commence a year-long 'Northern Rim' campaign, driving 6.4 km and visiting up to four sites of interest where it will obtain geological samples.
- During its mission, the rover has completed four science campaigns, including exploring the Máaz formation, different sections of Jezero’s delta fan and obtaining samples of rock and clay.
- Perseverance's latest campaign will explore a region of Mars unlike anything it has investigated before, providing insight into the early Martian crust.
- The rover will travel about 1.6 km back up the rim to investigate an outcropping of blocks called megabreccia, believed to be the remains of ancient bedrock broken by another impact.
- This geological epoch saw extensive erosion by flowing water, indicated by river valley networks that Mars was still geologically active.
- The ultimate goal is to find biosignatures from the 'warmer, wetter' period that indicate that Mars could have had life.
- Perseverance's science team shared information on the rover, their science operations, and future plans at a media briefing during the American Geophysical Union meeting.
- Perseverance is expected to drive over the next year, visiting several sites of scientific interest.
- This marks a transition in Perseverance's mission, exploring rocks that were thrown upward to form the crater rim after impact.
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