Nasa's Mars Perseverance rover has landed on the red planet, the space agency has announced.Its mission is to search for signs of ancient life, and explore and collect samples for future return to Earth from diverse environments on Mars.Perseverance will spend the coming years scouring for signs of ancient microbial life in a mission that will bring back samples from Mars to Earth and prepare the way for future human visitors.The research destination of the rover - a scientific laboratory the size of a car - is Jezero crater, a 28-mile-wide depression containing sediments of an ancient river delta.Scientists know that 3.5 billion years ago, Jezero was the site of a large lake, complete with its own delta.They believe that while the water.
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