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Perseverance: samples, flight and oxygen on Mars

Автопортрет Perseverance з Ingenuity на 46-й сол; мозаїка камер марсохода, не зовнішня зйомка / Perseverance selfie with Ingenuity on sol 46; a rover-camera mosaic rather than an external-camera photograph. Credit: Kevin Gill; CC BY 2.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=103247318

Офіційний графік першого випробування MOXIE з отримання кисню на Марсі / Official graph of MOXIE’s first Mars oxygen-production test; measured experimental data, not a conceptual image.

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Автопортрет Perseverance з Ingenuity на 46-й сол; мозаїка камер марсохода, не зовнішня зйомка / Perseverance selfie with Ingenuity on sol 46; a rover-camera mosaic rather than an external-camera photograph. Credit: Kevin Gill; CC BY 2.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=103247318

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The Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021, investigated rocks and collected samples for a possible future return to Earth. It also delivered the Ingenuity helicopter and MOXIE, an experiment that produced oxygen from carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere. NASA’s launch press kit estimated about $2.4 billion to build and launch the mission and another roughly $300 million for landing and prime operations. This was an initial estimate for defined phases, rather than the price of every future Mars mission.