毅力号火星车任务指导、导航和控制操作负责人斯瓦蒂·莫汉

Perseverance Mars rover mission commentator and guidance, navigation, and controls operations Lead Swati Mohan studies data on monitors in mission control, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.

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2021年2月18日，星期四，在加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳的美国宇航局喷气推进实验室里，斯瓦蒂·莫汉研究任务控制中心监测器上的数据。毅力号火星任务的一个关键目标是天体生物学，包括寻找古代微生物生命的迹象。毅力号将描绘火星的地质特征和过去的气候，为人类探索火星铺平道路，并成为第一个收集和储存火星岩石和风化层的任务。

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