Instead of receiving regular commands from Earth as usual, Perseverance, Curiosity and Ingenuity have to work autonomously for a while – because the sun prevents communication.
When Nasa becomes there will soon be a short break: From October 2 to 14, 2021, the American space agency will suspend its communication towards Mars. The reason for this is the position of the sun during this period; the dwarf star then moves directly between Earth and Mars. “Like two dancers on opposite sides of a large campfire, the two planets are temporarily invisible to each other,” describes Nasa the process almost poetically on her blog about the Mars program.
The so-called conjunction not only interrupts the view from Earth to Mars, but can also ensure that signals between the ground stations and the Mars fleet are partially destroyed or completely lost. Because that to
While some devices are temporarily shut down, others continue to collect and save data. Some instruments continue to send their findings towards the earth – with the risk that data will be lost from time to time.
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The Orbiters, Rover and letting Lander work completely independently may seem risky – but NASA relies on the experience of its engineers. “Like parents who raised their offspring to be responsible and let them take a short vacation with friends, they did everything they can to keep the travelers safe and healthy.” In fact, some employees would also use the two-week radio silence to take a few days off themselves or to do any work that had arisen – before they continued with the evaluation of stored data and the new mission instructions a short time later.
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