What is the Perseverance Rover? This is NASA’s latest mission to explore Mars.
The new NASA Mars rover launched in July 2020, and is due to land on the surface of Mars on 18 February 2021.
The rover will search for signs of life, collect rock samples, and test a new technique for producing oxygen from the Martian atmosphere which could pave the way for future human missions to Mars.
Perseverance features a number of new scientific instruments, including a drilling tool designed to extract and ‘cache’ rock samples that could be brought back to Earth by future missions. It also includes a tiny ‘helicopter’, designed to explore Mars from the skies.
Perseverance rover landing date: 18 February 2021.
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