How does a Mars Rover work? (Perseverance)

The Perseverance Rover landed on Mars on Feb 18, 2021. Come see how it works!
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📼Video Summary:
The Mars2020 Perseverance Rover took about 8 years to complete here on Earth. Built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Then it was shipped to Kennedy Space Center in Florida where it was launched. It took 7 months to get to Mars. Parts of the spacecraft include Cruise Stage, Backshell, Descent Stage, Perseverance, and the Heat Shield. Getting to the Surface of Mars is called EDL - Entry, Descent, and Landing. This must happen autonomously. The main purpose of the rover is to search for signs of life. Scientific instruments include SuperCam, MastCam-Z, MEDA, SHERLOC, WATSON, PIXL, MOXIE, and RIMFAX. The rover also brought along a helicopter called Ingenuity. This is the first helicopter to fly on another planet!
⌚Timestamps:
00:00-Intro
00:56-Previous Mars Rovers
01:34-Built on Earth
03:02-Launch Window
03:36-Launch
05:08-Spacecraft
06:01-Communication Delay
07:23-Entry,Descent, and Landing (EDL)
09:12-Main Purpose
09:34-Tour of the Rover
13:20-Communicating with Earth
14:44-Ingenuity Helicopter
16:01-Next steps on Mars
16:21-Morning Brew
17:19-More Animations
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🌐Internet Sources:
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ (official website for Perseverance)
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacec... (Amazing 3d visualization of the rover!)
eyes.nasa.gov/apps/mars2020/#... (Amazing 3d walkthrough of EDL)
mars.nasa.gov/news/8861/the-m...
Built For Mars: The Perseverance Rover (National Geographic Documentary)
• Getting NASA’s Perseve... (Getting Perseverance to the Launch Pad)
• Watch NASA's Persevera... (Perseverance Rover Launch to Mars)
• Watch NASA’s Persevera... (Perseverance Rover Landing on Mars)
• NASA’s Perseverance Ma... (Sample Caching System)
• Countdown to Mars: A S... (Countdown to Mars: A Story of Perseverance)
• 7 Minutes to Mars: NAS... (7 minutes of terror)
• NASA’s Ingenuity Mars ... (Mars Helicopter)
• How the Perseverance M... (Return Mars Samples to Earth)
📚Book Sources:
Perseverance and the Mars 2020 Mission by Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried
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NASA Missions to Mars: A Visual History of Our Question to Explore the Red Planet by Piers Bizony
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🟠This animation was made with Blender 3.1 (Cycles Render)
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🎵Music (soundstripe.com):
Inner Peace by Moments
Edge of the Sea by Cody Martin
Finding Truth by Cody Martin
Rain on the Leaves by In This World
Medal of Valor by Cody Martin
🚁NASA 3D models used in the video:
Mars Rover Perseverance - mars.nasa.gov/resources/25042...
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity - mars.nasa.gov/resources/25043...
Mars Rover Curiosity - solarsystem.nasa.gov/resource...
Mars Rover Spirit and Opportunity - mars.nasa.gov/resources/24883...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - mars.nasa.gov/resources/24884...
Deep Space Network Antenna - solarsystem.nasa.gov/resource...
3D models that I purchased for this video:
Mars Rover Sojourner - www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/...
Jeep Renegade - www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-mode...
SpaceX Starship - www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/sp...
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My dad works at Teledyne E2V in Essex, and has specifically made some parts for the Perseverance rover. Really nice to see its still relevant!

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Awesome!

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What

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I work at Teledyne Relays and so have we

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@@retsubanires Not really haha, it's just engineering work, you get paid the standard amount, maybe slightly more

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Thanks for the kind words! Yes, it's a lot of work but I really enjoy it

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Por eso es que digo, muchas gracias. Hace días que estaba buscando alguna información así de conciso acerca del Rover Oportunidad. Gracias

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My brother is always is messing around when I’m trying to learn

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i agree! 👍

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I can't help but think the names "Perseverance" and "Ingenuity" are very poetic with our current situation with space science.

[@jeffery7281]

Some small but important details missed: When assembled into the back shell/heat shield, the entire... we might called it "reentry vehicle" maintained an perfect symmtrical gravity center on geometry, convenient for the Cruise Stage to make control of vehicle's attitude. But when reentrying, the reentry vehicle needs an slightly asymmtrical CG to maintaining an naturally AoA (if symmtrical, there's no AoA, the vehicle will tend to maintaing lined up with flying vectors) to creating hypersonic lift, so that it can controlled the descent trajectory via aerodynamic control. To do that, just before reentry, two bob-weights on the back shell will be jettingsoned, so that the CG will moving sideways to created the required asymmtrical. Then after reentry, another four bob-weights will be jettingsoned to moving the CG back to the centerline, convenient for the parachute deploying.

[@Mridiot1234]

what is the helicopter for

[@lynxy7464]

@@Mridiot1234 its for the later missions

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[@JaredOwen]

Thank you Sumukh!

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It's so much bigger than I expected. From the shots of it on Mars, it looked like a RC car, but it's like an actual car!! Mind blowing tech.

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Lovely animation as always, Jared! Just curious: Why are Earth's landmasses mirror-flipped from their normal positions at 4:50?

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You know if you know 😉

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It also makes the rover go retrograde it this flipped universe….

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He forgot to fix this

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With your help, i understood more about this rover like the actual size and its journey and how it made it to mars and i also never knew about the little helicopter they also sent over there.

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[@JaredOwen]

Thank you!

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[@JaredOwen]

Thanks Dexter!

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"This is the the only"

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[@qualzo2230]

Fun fact: The first flight on Earth was somewhere in the 1800’s. And after lots and lots of years, the humans are now advanced enough to have a presence of The First interplanetary flight. (In Mars)

[@fanboypotion4412]

powered flight or balloons?

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@@fanboypotion4412 powered ofc

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This man does this work alone and he is better than media houses. That’s spectacular. Wow!

[@thestickmingamer]

This is our best icon of our *Perseverance.* Truly a landmark of *Ingenuity!*

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I'm a Mans-Man, and that's the cutest thing I've ever heard! A-hem! I mean, That's cool I guess.

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Thank you!

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Ingenuity in perseverance i hope look this

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Attendance ✓

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[@JaredOwen]

Thank you Manoj!

[@dennyleung111]

I agree with him

[@zacharybilby4375]

I’m late 😂 but I just wanted to say my dad was one of the people who worked on Perseverance a couple years back at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in CA, where they build rovers, when I went there on “ take ur child to work day “ I got to see it under construction behind a viewing platform, this was early 2018

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This is one of the best explanations AND animating at the same time? AWESOME!!! Keep it up!

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😁

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thank you for giving the notification about this video! I missed it first time around, and I'm glad I caught it now :)

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First time in this channel and I'm delighted with your work. Truly a treasure to find

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This is soooo good! Fantastic editing and well designed-shots! One of your best yet Jared!

[@JaredOwen]

Thank you Joel! One of the best parts is the lift off😏

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@@JaredOwen medieval theme looks really cool to be honest especially when you are going to wear costumes with a look of it and also to think that fantasy clothes and cultural looks looks beautiful because of their colorful appearance that somehow look wonderful

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GREAT video, I have been following all the rovers since the beginning but this was a great way to show everything.

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A lot of good videos out there already but I didn't feel like any one of them summed up the whole process. Hopefully this video does the trick!

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man! this bg-MUSICwith the ANIMATION is so so exciting! and really really make my minds goes fly~ that fell of expolring the universe is sooooo gooood! what a wonderful universe travel ranger!

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I know the background illustrations are intentionally abstract but I am chortling at the thought of a pallet jack just hanging around in the room where they build the Mars rovers

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[@JaredOwen]

😀

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I feel like this is already in the works but I think everyone would love to see a video about the starship also great video

[@smashingpencils]

Can we take time to appreciate the perseverance needed to create this video 😉

[@JaredOwen]

It was a lot of hard work for sure!

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@@JaredOwen you must have lots of *Ingenuity*

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Impressive as always, Jared. 🥰 I don't miss a single video of you.

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Amazing work, Jared! Fascinating to watch. Probably someone pointed this out in the 1800+ comments so far: a small patch of the fabric from the Wright Brothers Kitty Hawk flyer was fastened to the Ingenuity rover. A real tribute to the just over 100 years of human flight.

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Its your hardwork and nice animations that enable us to see such beautiful videos for free. Thank you for everything Jared.

[@JaredOwen]

Thank you! I appreciate the kind words

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Woah that's perfect

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Ali you also follow Jared ? 😆

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Yes i love this 😍

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@@SFSALi Me too 🤩

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@@Vartesss thanks

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Thanks a lot for all your videos where there is a lot of hard work! Your animations are great. Loved all your videos and at last I loved the Starship standing on MARS!

[@JaredOwen]

Thanks Mohammed! And I had to that put something about SpaceX in there😁

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@@JaredOwen Will you wish do another animated video of Crew Dragon, Boeing Starliner and SLS and Orion which are the human rated spacecrafts at present.

[@TrueSpace61]

It will never reach Mars. Not only is it evil, it is also very poorly built.

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​@JaredOwen why... They're evil. Why not put the true lander that will be used by NASA?

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Can you make a video on Chandrayaan 3?

[@vsbaretummysugastonguetech1540]

Just finding out the rover, is as big as a car. I always pictured being, four times the size of a remote control car.

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It would be cool to see how a tilt and turn window's mechanism works, like all the moving parts and what needs to happen for it to tilt and turn just by turning the handle

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Jared, if you do all this yourself you are a polymathic genius! Thank you!

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Plz make an animation video on chandrayaan 3 🇮🇳🇮🇳

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Thanks!

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You are always GREAT, Jared ... great voice ... great animations ... I am italian and I am sorry there are no such quality videos in italian. I wish I could replicate them dubbing for my country.

[@111danish111]

Am i the only one most impressed by the cruise stage that thing is responsible for traveling almost 300 million miles over seven months time !!

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I didn't know it was the size of a car. I've been imagining something MUCH smaller.

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Ikr

[@PuggysWorld]

All American spacecraft on Mars Viking 1 Viking 2 PathFinder&Sojourner Mars Polar Lander Spirit Opportunity Phoenix Curiosity Insight Perseverance Ingenuity

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Amazing information I have ever seen till Jared👏, great animation and detailed information still can be understandable...just wow👏

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This was uploaded on my birthday

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Hello Sir, I have a suggestion "If possible can you do a video on Aircraft Carrier." Please and I Love your videos ❤️

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That would be awesome!

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@@semzqnderrem_6917 Yeah

[@JaredOwen]

Aircraft carrier is a great idea😀

[@SFS_MYTHOS]

@@JaredOwen What about the Tiangong Space Station after the aircraft carrier ?

[@sfsrocketengineer2492]

@@JaredOwen yAy

[@abab-fc3xg]

Does Ingenuity have a way to clean its solar panels?

[@shaldurprime7154]

I've played a lot of Rover mechanic simulator on the switch, so I know some of this information already. The only Rover mentioned in this video that isn't in Rover mechanic simulator is Perseverance itself, but Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Ingenuity are in it. It's been a while since I've played so maybe perseverance has been added since then, but I had no idea perseverance and curiosity were so similar. Spirit and Opportunity are mechanically identical, I knew that already, but in the game they are cosmetically different. I couldn't tell you which is which, but they have different colored solar panels. One of them has blue tinted panels with white trim, giving it a sort of retro aesthetic, and the other has black tinted panels with either no trim or a dark gold trim I don't remember which.

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I am in class 8 right now but i am making a project on rover so i am watching this video it is not so hard😊 yor video helped me so much thanks

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The best space animations ever. Could you maybe do a small one on spacex?

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We are all lucky for having Jared making such wonderful educational videos on KZbin. His works are incredibly well made.

[@JaredOwen]

Thanks Sepehr - I'm glad you enjoy my videos😀

[@41ankitt]

I was wondering that there were so many complex stages that were needed before the rover could land on Mars and they were all done with pin point precision that shows how good the work done by the NASA .... It is astonishing ! .... Great engineering and a great step for humanity as a whole as we move towards a promising future ! .... 👍 .... 🙂 ....

[@itsCN]

Can you do how an airport works? I’d love to see how the luggage system works with all of those conveyer belts and complicated systems that make it run so smooth

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Can you make how Starship works?

[@JaredOwen]

thinking about it😀

[@ludicrousspeed8177]

Ingenuity is up to like 30 flights now!

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Nghe xong bài này cái thấy tâm trạng buồn và nặng nề kinh khủng. Nhưng lại cứ phải replay hoài cả ngày😍

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Wish you could do like a vid on how brushless motors work. Your video on motors was the first video I saw and it was educational and engaging to learn.

[@RomanSegovia]

RIP ingenuity 😔

[@mie-]

why? 😅

[@RomanSegovia]

@@mie- Ingenuity broke

[@iliketornadoes]

@@mie-propeller chipped and likely will effect the flight of it heavily

[@belkan_chadicus]

@@iliketornadoes NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo

[@rocketplayes2049]

Rip 😭

[@zabamaz103]

I wonder what reference they use to steer the spacecraft there, I know they had satellites in mars, but how they got the satellites there. Even more curious is how they did in the 60’ or 70’s like the voyager. No compass, not other satellites, no cameras to use as a guide/ reference.

[@ten6466]

someone was driving it🤣

[@cadrejeff]

I’m pretty sure math is used for calculating the course of a spacecraft. Although it would be slightly difficult back in the 60’s or 70’s due to their lack of technology, math has been around for ages and we’ve perfected every formula that has to do anything with spacetravel.

[@cadrejeff]

When a rocket launches, there’s an imaginary arch that progressively gets higher and wider. The arch represents the course of the rocket and where it will land, until it is a circle which means that it will be in orbit. The reason this is possible is because the constant acceleration and rotation of the rocket push and steer it through the sky. Now what I’m guessing is scientists use this knowledge, and calculate the course of a rocket, having discovered rocket physics a long time ago.

[@zabamaz103]

@@cadrejeff sort of like what I thought but there’s the “alignment adjustment “ thru out the course, that’s what it got me. If the line was drawn why needs an adjustment and base on what reference they steering.

[@emk88]

Classified information

[@jairuskteo]

Thank you for your hard work and explanation.

[@albireothestarthebacklight2990]

Percy shall have a long and groundbreaking career.

[@SFS_MYTHOS]

Hi Jared I see you made a video about the ISS... What do you think about making a video about the chinese Tiangong Space Station ? It could help a lot of people to learn more about the chinese space program 🇨🇳

[@Benjamin-nt1uo]

Yeah that would be great 😀

[@Itsme-dt6cf]

Yes !

[@Benjamin-do7mu]

Yeah 👍

[@JaredOwen]

I will consider it!

[@SFS_MYTHOS]

@@JaredOwen Thanks 🙏

[@disneysblog]

Can you talk about Falcon 9 ?

[@edgufler1122]

Thank you very much for taking the time in creating these videos and sharing them with us.

[@mattgreen1594]

You're excellent at explaining things - in this and your other videos.

[@JohnDoe-zw6to]

I wish you didn't say "nuclear" as "new-ku-lar"... "canberra" is pronounced "kan-bra" not "can-bear-rah".

[@JaredOwen]

Thanks for the feedback John!