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NASA's Mars rover Perseverance hurtled into the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth en route to a nail-biting landing attempt Thursday on an ancient, alien lake bed, where scientists hope to find signs of fossilized microbial life.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected its first two rock samples, both slightly wider than a pencil in diameter and about six centimeters long, and now stored in sealed tubes in the rover's interior. NASA is hoping to return the samples to Earth for in depth lab analysis in a joint mission with the European Space Agency sometime in the 2030s.
A vehicle filled with cameras, microphones, drills, and lasers is part of an ambitious long-term project to bring rock samples from Mars to Earth for analysis in search of life.
NASA's latest rover Perseverance launches for Mars, blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on schedule.
NASA's most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, will launch from Earth on July 30 on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life on what was once a river delta three-and-a-half billion years ago.
NASA's most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, will launch from Earth on July 30 on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life on what was once a river delta three-and-a-half billion years ago.
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