The car-sized, six-wheeled rover has now driven farther than any other vehicle on the surface of another world
Nasa’s Perseverance rover has broken a record on Mars.
The car-sized, six-wheeled rover has now driven farther than any other vehicle on the surface of another world, logging 28.1 miles (45.2 km) since arriving on Mars in 2021, the US space agency said on Tuesday.
Perseverance reached the milestone 5.5 years into its mission to explore whether conditions conducive to microbial life ever existed on Earth’s neighbour. In doing so, it is visiting some of the most ancient terrain ever encountered in the solar system.
Y’all named it perseverance, what did y’all expect?
averaging 24 m/day, 1m/hour … slow but steady.
How many football fields is that?
(It’s 494.56, at an average speed of 2.58 football fields per mooch.)
but for context, how many Olympic sized swimming pools?
904.68 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Here’s the former record and contenders
It may be completely accurate but posting a chatgpt answer is pretty bad form.
It gives chatbots legitimacy to share their responses so freely. It’s giving them power to dictate the truth.
you are the best.
