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Related: About this forumWho is, or was, Jezero? (The crater where Perci landed)?
(Read that the JPL people use the nickname)
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Who is, or was, Jezero? (The crater where Perci landed)? (Original Post)
question everything
Feb 2021
OP
Now that Perseverance has landed on Mars, what will the rover do inside Jezero Crater?
Judi Lynn
Feb 2021
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dweller
(23,613 posts)1. Jezero crater is named
after the village in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina
It means lake
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question everything
(47,434 posts)3. Slavic origin? Interesting.
Autumn
(44,980 posts)2. "Jezero" is a slavic word meaning "lake."
There was a lake in the crater when the valley networks were forming on Mars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezero_(crater)
nocoincidences
(2,215 posts)4. It was named for a village in Bosnia
that sits in an old lake bed with similar topography.
I can't get the link to work but check out the story on Euronews.
Judi Lynn
(160,450 posts)5. Now that Perseverance has landed on Mars, what will the rover do inside Jezero Crater?
By Adam Mann - Live Science Contributor 2 days ago
One of the most exciting aspects of successful landing of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars is the fact that the laboratory-on-wheels will start the first leg in a long-awaited sample-return mission.
Researchers have never gotten their hands on fresh pieces of the Red Planet, meaning that many key pieces of information such as the age of features on the Martian surface remain unknown. Perseverance aims to change that, with a plan to drill and capture up to 30 test-tube-size samples from the mudstone rocks in its landing site, known as Jezero crater.
A key challenge will be ensuring that these samples are the best ones possible, giving scientists the most informational bang for their buck. To find out more about how NASA's engineers will do that, Live Science reached out to geochemist and Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
Images from orbiting spacecraft have already identified the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero crater as an ancient water-carved delta, where a river flowed into an ancient lake. Perseverance is scheduled to land in the delta's basin, most likely near the base of some cliffs full of fine-grained sedimentary rocks, Farley said.
More:
https://www.livescience.com/how-mars-perserverance-rover-picks-samples.html