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Miami (USA), 30 Jul (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Cristóbal Herrera).- The new Mars rover, also known as Perseverance, took off Thursday from Cape Canaveral in Florida towards Mars with the mission of finding microscopic life either present or past on the planet's surface.FOOTAGE OF THE LAUNCH AT CAPE CANAVERAL
Le rover Persévérance de la NASA découvre les composants de la vie sur Mars
NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, marking the start of the space agency's new flagship program, Artemis. The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) blasted off from the storied Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:47 am (0647 GMT). IMAGES
NASA says it has succeeded in deflecting an asteroid in a historic test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, says NASA chief Bill Nelson in a press conference from Washington. SOUNDBITE
NASA's Perseverance rover sends its first two images to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, shortly after landing on Mars. IMAGES