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Vaisala heads to Mars onboard

NASA’s Perseverance rover

International collaboration takes Vaisala and the Finnish Meteorological Institute

(FMI) to Mars onboard NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The rover is
scheduled to launch on July 30, 2020. Vaisala’s sensor technology combined with
FMI’s measurement instrumentation will be used to obtain accurate and reliable
pressure and humidity data from the surface of the red planet
he Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) The new mission equipment complements the
is among the scientific partners providing Curiosity rover. While working on Mars, the
measurement equipment for the new Curiosity and Perseverance rovers will form a small-
TPerseverance rover, expected to launch in scale observation network. The network is
July and land on Mars in February 2021. The only the first step, anticipating the extensive
pressure and humidity measurement devices observation network planned on Mars in the future.
developed by the FMI are based on Vaisala's world The Mars 2020 mission is part of NASA’s Mars
known sensor technology and are similar but more Exploration Program. In order to obtain data from
advanced to the ones sent to Mars on the first the surface from the Red Planet, NASA selected
Curiosity rover in 2012. trusted partners to provide measurement

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