After six months of intensive troubleshooting, Nasa’s Perseverance Mars rover has successfully revived its Sherloc (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument. This critical tool, designed to search for signs of ancient microbial life, encountered a malfunction in January that rendered it inoperative. However, engineers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory …
Days after Nasa grounded the Ingenuity helicopter forever on Mars following a fatal 72nd flight, the Perseverance is in trouble too. The latest data from the Martian rover confirmed that the dust cover on one of the science instrument’s cameras is not functioning. The covers help keep dust away from accumulating on the optics of …
to the SHERLOC instrument. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS It can be hard enough to fix a technical issue on Earth. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover team is trying to fix a technical problem on a robot on another planet. There’s a stuck dust cover on an important instrument that helps the rover search for organic compounds. It’s putting a …