Live on Mars First Helicopter Takeoff & Audio from Mars (Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover & Ingenuity)

This is live from the surface of Mars! NASA Mars 2020 spacecraft with Perseverance Rover and the Ingenuity helicopter drone will touch down in Jezero crater on Mars. Mars 2020 rover, named Perseverance, will explore the Martian surface and seek to answer questions about the potential of ancient life on Mars. The Perseverance rover was designed with help from Curiosity’s engineering team, as both are quite similar. Engineers redesigned the Perseverance rover wheels to be more robust than Curiosity’s wheels, which have sustained some damage. The rover will have thicker, more durable aluminum wheels, with reduced width and a greater diameter (52.5 cm (20.7 in)) than Curiosity’s 50 cm (20 in) wheel. The aluminum wheels are covered with cleats for traction and curved titanium spokes for springy support. The combination of the larger instrument suite, new Sampling and Caching System, and modified wheels makes Perseverance (1025 kg) heavier than its predecessor Curiosity (899 kg), by 14%. The rover will include a fi