Mission 2 Mars

Overview of your mission

10DIG Mission Mars

Mars Mission launched in 2020

Quick Facts

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: The Perseverance rover will seek signs of ancient life and collect rock and soil samples for possible return to Earth.

Launch Window: July 22 - Aug. 11, 2020

Launch Location: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021

Landing Site: Jezero Crater, Mars

Mission Duration: At least one Mars year (about 687 Earth days)

Tech Demo: The Mars Helicopter is a technology demonstration, hitching a ride on the Perseverance rover.

mars_2020_launch_press_kit.pdf

Mars Perseverance Rover

Landing of Perseverance explained

Mars Mission landed in 2021

Landing of Perseverance

First flight of Ingenuity

The mission objectives

S = Sample

You will create and program a Rover that will have landed on Mars that you will need to Code to reach the Rover's Objectives as you drive through the circuit as depicted on the left.

Mission Objectives

Overcome “7 minutes of terror” delay (Your Rover will drive through a tunnel where no contact will be possible until the Rover is out the other end)
Take photos at certain spots and send back
Take samples at certain spots
Do a Tech Demo
Get the designated end spot to get Samples back to earth.

What you are allowed to do

At any point throughout the journey you can upload the code to the rover when you need to. In real life, the Perseverance crew back on earth is updating code to the Rover all the time. They do it via wireless signal sent to Mars, we do it via the USB upload. One exception though is during the “7 minutes of terror” delay as the real life rover would then also be out of comms.

Rover Resources

How to build your Rover

FlipRobot Basics Build

Drive your Rover by Remote Control

FlipRobot Basics Drive By Wire

Basics

First step into controlling the robot is by controlling it by using the wired controller.

Use the instructions on the left to figure out how that works.

FlipRobot Basics Ultrasound

Ultrasound

To detect obstacles, our Rover has been equipped with to Ultasound Sensors. The Eyes of our Rover.

Use the instructions on the left to figure out how that works.

Drive your Rover with Code

Do this first

Use this website to code your robot:

https://code.fliprobot.com/blockly/apps/blocklyMain/

And follow the instructions below..

By the way....

Do make sure you have added this extension first .... https://fliprobot-download.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/Extension%26Driver/FliprobotServiceTool_1.1.1.crx.zip

(For Windows and Mac, set the switch for your extensions to "Developer Mode" and Reload the page first!)

If you need to install the software on your computer go here for the install files:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nKYnwoiOk5Va-_NdBEkWetYt9X3QSNhF

FlipRobot Basics Programming

The wired controller is fine, but when we launch the Rover to Mars, we'd need a veeeery long wire to communicate. So let's try and code the Rover directly so it can run by itself!

Use the instructions on the left to figure out how that works.