NASA Puts Mars 2020 Rover's Space Ride to the Test
NASA's next Mars rover keeps on preparing for its dispatch toward the Red Planet the following summer. Recently, engineers put the Mars 2020 rover's completely amassed rocket through certain tests at the Space Simulator Facility at NASA's JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in Pasadena, California. The spacecraft comprises of the journey arrange, which will drive the rover on its seven-month trip via interplanetary space; the aeroshell, which will secure Mars 2020 amid its dramatic plunge through the Red Planet's climate; and the "sky crane" drop organize, which will bring down the rover onto the Martian surface on links. The analyses were performed with a stand-in rover, because JPL specialists are as yet assembling the genuine vehicle, NASA authorities said. Mars 2020 depends intensely on NASA's Curiosity rover, which arrived inside Mars' Gale Crater in August 2012. Curiosity's perceptions propose that the Red Planet was equipped for supporting life as we probably it for extended lengths in the far off past, and Mars 2020 will make the following stride: searching for indications of old life forms.