Mars Perseverance Rover
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Geocaching HQ
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020
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Florida, United States
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Geocaching and NASA head to Mars with the Perseverance Rover
Mars 2020 is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. This specific mission addresses high-priority science goals for Mars exploration, including key questions about the potential for life there. On the day/sol when the rover landed on Mars, Geocaching HQ launched this page about Perseverance and Geocaching's history with regards to space:
Perseverance has four main science goals:
- Determine whether life ever arose on Mars
- Characterize the climate of Mars
- Characterize the geology of Mars
- Prepare for human exploration
Timeline:
- July 30, 2020: launch with an Atlas V-541 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
- February 18, 2021 / Sol 0: arrival at Octavia E. Butler Landing in Jezero Crater, Mars
- March 17, 2021 / Sol 26: photograph taken on Mars and sent to Earth! By logging the trackable, you immediately earn a new souvenir for your profile to celebrate the first interplanetary trackable.
Thanks to the Mars 2020 SHERLOC instrument team at Johnson Space Center, the newest mission to Mars contains a tracking code, truly taking geocaching out of this world!
The trackable code is specially printed on a one-inch, unique, glass disk that is part of the rover’s calibration target. See the picture below. Cameras and other tools on the rover use calibration targets to determine accurate colors, brightness, focus, and other information. This calibration target is specifically for the SHERLOC’s WATSON camera. The SHERLOC instrument is a spectrometer on the rover’s arm that uses laser light to classify minerals and look for organic compounds. WATSON, its sidekick camera system, is used for engineering, operations and science imaging on the surface of Mars.
How can I log this trackable if I’m not also going to Mars?
If you’re not blasting off anytime soon, don’t worry. You’ll still be able to log the Mars Rover.
The tracking code is on the WATSON camera’s calibration target. After Perseverance lands on Mars and NASA does a few other tasks, that camera takes a picture of the tracking code itself and sends that picture back to Earth. You can log the Rover by finding the code in that picture.
Look through NASA’s raw images. Can you find the image of our trackable item in that large gallery? Be sure to filter for pictures taken by SHERLOC and WATSON.
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Texasgal60 posted a note for it
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So exciting. Mars Rover Perseverance has landed. Now to wait for the TB code to be revealed!
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1Novak discovered it
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Wow !
Amazing achievement. Congratulations!
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Tommy_Laura discovered it
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Wish I could see this trackable live, on the red planet! For now, we're excited and looking forward to watch the JPL/NASA stream of the mission landing later on today! Thanks for this other-worldly experience and multiplanetary geoobject!
It was an incredible experience watching you take off, go on your months long journey, live stream your landing, and then follow your updates on landing. Good luck and safe travels!
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GrannyCheryl discovered it
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Thank you NASA and Groundspeak.I looked all day for this. Many hints from another cacher. I’ve had so much fun watching the live touchdown and searching for this code. I love geocaching! And Space Exploration. So happy to see them combined.
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I watched the landing live! I’m so excited! I love the fact that we have a TB on Mars!
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The specification target for the calibration target is well describing. Cool !
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Been There, Done That! Go Perseverance!
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This is Awesome! I can’t wait to watch on Thursday with the kiddos!
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