Octavia E. Butler Landing
Octavia E. Butler Landing is the February 18, 2021, landing site of the Mars 2020 Perseverance (rover), ''Perseverance'' rover within Jezero (crater), Jezero crater on planet Mars. On March 5, 2021, NASA named the site for the renowned American science fiction author, Octavia E. Butler, who died on February 24, 2006. The Mars landing took place nearly 15 years to the day after her death. The coordinates of the landing site on Mars are Description Jezero (crater), Jezero Crater was chosen as the 2021 landing site for the Perseverance (rover), ''Perseverance'' rover and Ingenuity (helicopter), ''Ingenuity'' helicopter as part of the Mars 2020 Mission, Mars 2020 mission. Thought to have once been flooded with water, the Impact crater, crater contains a river delta, fan-delta deposit rich in clays. The lake in the crater was present when valley networks were forming on Mars. Besides having a delta, the crater shows point bars and inverted channels. From a study of the delta ...
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