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Rover Depot

Agents & automations

Agents and automations. Like the rovers outside, they run on their own.

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Bays charging

Perseverance is doing laps while the bays charge. Agents and automations will roll out of here soon.

The rovers outside

The rover and the helicopter on the base are models of NASA’s Perseverance and Ingenuity, which landed in Jezero Crater.

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover

It landed on 18 February 2021 on the floor of Jezero Crater, at a spot now called Octavia E. Butler Landing. That is where this base is set.
Jezero is where an ancient river met a lake and left a delta. Perseverance searches it for signs of ancient microbial life.
It carries seven science instruments and 23 cameras, more cameras than any interplanetary mission before it.

NASA’s Mars helicopter

It rode to Mars strapped beneath Perseverance, and on 19 April 2021 it made the first powered flight on another planet.
Built for up to five test flights in 30 days, it flew 72 times over nearly three years: 128.8 minutes in the air, 17 km covered, and as high as 24 m.
It weighs 1.8 kg, and its rotors are 1.2 m across.
Its last flight was on 18 January 2024. Its rotor blades were damaged on landing, and that ended the mission.

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