Cool :)

You can tell that Rover has been through it…

Its older cousin (Curiosity Rover) is still trekking on the other side of Mars, right now it is the evening of sol 4537 and the rover has had another busy day exploring Gale crater. It’s been exploring Gale since August 2012. Here’s the data/ stats after its most recent drive a few days ago :)

Hopefully Perseverance will still be trekking after a similar time on Mars

The Russian space agency (Roscosmos)

Released the following on their Telegram channel… (Translated from Russian)

The device “Cosmos-482” descended from orbit and fell into the ocean

Launched in 1972, the spacecraft “Cosmos-482” ceased to exist, descending from orbit and falling in the Indian Ocean

The convergence of the device was controlled by the means of the Automated Warning System of Danger Situations in Near-Earth Space.

In accordance with the calculations of specialists TsNIIMash (part of Roscosmos), the device entered the dense layers of the atmosphere at 9:24 GMT 560 km west of the island of the Middle Andaman and fell in the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta.

The device was launched in the spring of 1972 to study Venus, but due to a malfunction of the upper stage remained in the high elliptical orbit of the Earth, gradually approaching the planet.