#Mars: Perseverance unloading samples and climbing Jezero Crater. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 22 December 2022
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#Mars: Perseverance unloading samples and climbing Jezero Crater. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/perseverances-planned-route-up-onto-the-jezero-crater-delta/
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| 0:27.0 | Slack.com slash DHQ. This is CBS. I'm John Batsy with Bob Zimmerman, who keeps the website |
| 0:36.2 | behind the black. We're going to the surface of the planet Mars and the experiment that |
| 0:41.8 | long, long time ago was supposed to be DOA. But Bob, what of insight? What do we know right |
| 0:48.4 | now about its energy level? I had posted earlier last week at |
| 0:54.0 | the most recent energy levels and it was still operating, but they had a communications |
| 0:59.3 | session scheduled for December 18th. And insight did not respond from Earth. The power |
| 1:09.6 | levels have been declining. They already told us that if it misses two schedules, |
| 1:16.8 | a communication session in a row, they were going to declare it dead. It has now missed |
| 1:22.0 | one communication session. They have not said when the next one is, but it appears they |
| 1:27.4 | were communicating with this about once a week. And if that's the case, sometime in the |
| 1:32.1 | next week, if it does not respond to the next response, insight will be declared at |
| 1:37.6 | dead spacecraft. I suspect what happened in the week between contacts most dust settled |
| 1:43.6 | onto the solar panels and the power levels dropped again. And it just simply wasn't |
| 1:48.9 | something not sufficient to run the spacecraft and it shut down. And if it shuts down for |
| 1:55.1 | too long, this is what happened to opportunity. Everything freezes, the batteries die and |
| 1:59.8 | it just cannot turn that guy on. We go from insight, which never was a rover, to the |
| 2:07.8 | rover perseverance. And Bob has a projection of its path in Jazeera crater. Is there anything |
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