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NASA's Perseverance rover streaks toward a landing on Mars - Fox News

NASA's Perseverance rover streaks toward a landing on Mars - Fox News

NASA's Perseverance rover streaks toward a landing on Mars - Fox News
Feb 18, 2021 1 min, 10 secs

A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.

Ground controllers at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, settled in nervously for the descent of Perseverance to the surface of Mars, long a deathtrap for incoming spacecraft.

The landing of the six-wheeled vehicle would mark the third visit to Mars in just over a week.

NASA'S PERSEVERANCE ROVER IS READY TO LAND ON MARS.

In this illustration made available by NASA, the Perseverance rover casts off its spacecraft's cruise stage, minutes before entering the Martian atmosphere.

Perseverance, the biggest, most advanced rover ever sent by NASA, stood to become the ninth spacecraft to successfully land on Mars, every one of them from the U.S.

Scientists believe that if life ever flourished on Mars, it would have happened 3 billion to 4 billion years ago, when water still flowed on the planet?

The plan called for three to four dozen chalk-size samples to be sealed in tubes and set aside on Mars to be retrieved by a fetch rover and brought homeward by another rocket ship, with the goal of getting them back to Earth as early as 2031.

"Are we alone in this sort of vast cosmic desert, just flying through space, or is life much more common.

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