Thursday, February 18, 2021

NASA's Perseverance rover successfully lands on Mars

 It may be that the US is still the only nation to successfully land a rover on the red planet.

Perseverance, the most technologically advanced robot NASA has sent to date, will remain on Mars for nearly two years, searching for signs of ancient life and exploring the planet's surface.

The rover, built in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is about 10 feet long, 9 feet wide, seven feet tall and about 2,260 pounds, about 278 pounds heavier than its predecessor, Curiosity.

Perseverance traveled 293 million miles to reach Mars over the course of more than six months.

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