Weigh It Up · Space
How heavy is Perseverance rover?
1.02 tweight
NASA gives Perseverance 1,025 kg, about 126 kg more than Curiosity.
Enter your height to compare yourself with Perseverance rover.
- 0.79× a family car (1.3 t)
- 0.17× a african elephant (6 t)
- 0.085× a city bus (12 t)
- 14.6× the adult human (70 kg)
How to picture 1.02 t
Start from something you can see right now. Perseverance rover is about 0.79× family car. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.
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