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NASA’s Perseverance Rover successfully touches the Martian surface
On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance Rover successfully landed at the Jezero Crater on the Red Planet at 3:55 PM EST. The landing site is expected to be an ancient lake and river delta. Therefore, making it a suitable place to search for evidence of life. The robotic explorer travelled a distance of 300 million miles in seven months.
The $2.7 billion spacecraft had a self-guided descent and landing, which NASA dubbed as “the seven minutes of terror.” It is the most ambitious rover on Mars.
Perseverance Rover is tasked with four key objectives. It will look for the presence of ancient life on the planet, investigate the climatic conditions, and collect rock samples and store them for future sample-return missions to Earth. The rover will also experiment if oxygen can be produced on the plant, which will pave the way for future human missions.
Perseverance Rover will undergo several weeks of testing before it begins its journey on the Red Planet.
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