How it Completes Its Objectives

Perserverance uses a drill to collect samples of Martian soil & rock. Searching for ancient life, it uses the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) module which, according to NASA, "uses cameras, spectrometers, and a laser to search for organics and minerals that have been altered by watery environments and may be signs of past microbial life." As for experimetally producing oxygen, MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) takes the CO₂ from the atmosphere and makes oxygen. The two Mastcam-Z cameras are panoramic and can take pictures & videos that are three-dimensional!

The SuperCam is just as amazing as the Mastcam-Z cameras, being able to detect chemicals on a specific spot as small as a pencil point! Even cooler, it can do this from up to 20 feet(7 meters) away! PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry) has a camera that can see things as small as a grain of salt. MEDA (Mars Eviormental Dynamics Analyzer) is Perserverance's weather station. It can measure wind speed/directon, temperature & humdity. The coolest part is that MEDA can measure not just the amount of dust in the air, but the size of the particles as well! RIMFAX (Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment) can literally see under the surface! It does this with radar waves that can penetrate the ground up to 30 feet(10 meters, depending on the material)!

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