Jezero Crater: Here's why NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover is landing on this crater

NASA’s new Mars Rover, Perseverance, is all set to start its multi-year mission to find signs of habitability and cache, particularly promising rocks for a future sample-return mission to bring to Earth's laboratories. To figure out where the new Mars Rover should land, scientists at NASA went through 60 locations in a span of 5 years and finally came to the choice of Jezero Crater on Mars. Jezero Crater is a crater on the Martian surface where Perseverance is supposed to land. Many people want to learn why the Mars Rover is landing on Jezero Crater.

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Why is Mars Rover Landing on Jezero Crater?

It was an exhausting process for the scientists at NASA to circle in on a location where the Mars rover was supposed to land. This was a tedious process as Mars has abundant evidence of water and organic molecules, making it difficult to pick one single spot. The reason the scientists chose the Jezero Crater was to show how water periodically appeared and then disappeared on the Martian surface.

Scientists believe that the planet lost its water because the atmosphere grew too thin. But their research indicates that around 3.5 billion years ago, Jezero Crater on Mars could’ve been a potentially habitable river valley.

The Mars rover is set to land on the Delta first and analyze the sediments of this crater. Then it will examine the shoreline and finally start picking up some worthy rocks from the rim of the Crater. Scientists believe that Microbial Life could’ve lived on Jezero and signs of their remains might be found in lakebed or shoreline sediments. Scientists will study how the region formed and evolved, seek signs of past life, and collect samples of Mars rock and soil that might preserve these signs.

Jezero Crater Features

The diameter of Jezero is about 49.0 km (30.4 mi). Jezero was assumed to have been overwhelmed with water, the cavity contains a fan-delta store wealthy in the dirt. The lake in the cavity was available when valley networks were framing on Mars. Other than having a delta, the cavity shows point bars and transformed channels. From an investigation of the delta and channels, it was reasoned that the lake inside the cavity most likely framed during a period in which there was persistent surface spillover. These are the Jezero Crater features

Jezero Crater Pictures

Many people want to know what the crater where the Mars Rover, Perseverance, is going to land looks like. Check out the Jezero Crater Pictures below:

 

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