Summary Draft 2 of Perseverance's Robotic Arm
Perseverance’s Robotic Arm Summary The webpage “Robotic Arm” (NASA, n.d.) introduces Mars' Perseverance’s robotic arm. The robotic arm collects rock samples and stores them for analysis. The Perseverance’s robotic arm consists of scientific cameras, a drill, Gaseous Dust Rem oval Tool (GDRT), five degrees of freedom rotary actuators and a ground contact sensor. There are three scientific cameras, WATSON, SHERLOC and PIXL. As mentioned in the webpage “Watson” (NASA, n.d.), WATSON is a color camera used to take zoomed in pictures of targets of interest that contain signs of microbial life searched by SHERLOC. PIXL functions similarly to SHERLOC. However, it is able to identify chemical elements at a miniscule level. The rover's drill penetrates into the Martian surface to collect and store rock samples according to “Robotic Arm” (NASA, n.d.). The GDRT then uses nitrogen gas to reveal the inner layer of the rock for analysis (Brockie, 2021).The five degrees of freedom ro...