Scheduled for the launch of Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30, 2020 aboard an Atlas V rocket, the Perseverance rover will land on February 18, 2021 in Jezero Crater.
An effect on the crater with a diameter of about forty-five km, Jezero is located on the edge of the giant Isidis has an effect on the basin. Morphological evidence suggests that the crater once housed a lake about 3.5 billion years ago.
Jezero has a front and an external channel. The access channel is discharged into a delta-fan reservoir, containing minerals rich in water such as smectite clays. Scientists at the lake lived for a relatively long time because the delta would possibly have taken between one and 10 million years to succeed in its thickness and size. Other studies conclude that the lake has not experienced significant periods of fluctuations in water points and has formed through non-stop surface runoff. This makes The Jezero crater a primary target for finding possible symptoms of microbial life, as biological molecules are very well preserved in river deltas and lake sediments.
Here will be a recent examination of the ancient shores of the lake, minerals and violent volcanism of Jezero Crater, founded on the knowledge of ESA’s Mars Express project: Mars Express is helping to uncover the secrets of the Perseverance landing site