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NASA scientists that worked on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover mission show new stills and videos from the rover's landing on the surface of the Red Planet, which they say are useful to "inspect not only the vehicle but the surface around."
NASA's rover made a historic landing on Mars on Thursday as part of a mission to uncover signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock.
Seven months after its departure from Earth, NASA's latest Mars rover is just hours away from its destination. We speak to former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman about the perils of trying to land on the red planet, how exactly the samples that Perseverance collects are supposed to get back to Earth, and whether he'll be signing up for future manned missions to Mars.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured footage of Phobos, one of Mars’s two moons, crossing the face of the sun on April 2, NASA said.
After seven months in space, NASA's Perseverance rover overcame a tense landing phase with a series of perfectly executed maneuvers to gently float down to the Martian soil Thursday and embark on its mission to search for signs of past life. FRANCE 24's Alyssa Caverley reports from Los Angeles.
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