space agency is aiming to touch down on the Red Planet on Thursday - in what they have dubbed as 'seven minutes of terror'. The most difficult Mars landing ever attempted is part of the 'Mars 2020 mission' that set off from Florida in July last year.Nasa’s science mission chief, Thomas Zurbuchen, considers it “one of the hardest things ever done by humanity and certainly in space science”.Perseverance’s mission is the first leg in a US-European effort to bring Mars samples to Earth in the next decade and will be a key step in determining whether life ever existed on Mars.Nasa's Perseverance rover is set to touch down on Mars on Thursday, February 18.If all goes to plan, it should land at 3.55pm EST - 8.55pm in the UK.Perseverance is aiming.
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