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NASA's Mars landing to be '7 minutes of terror' for 'most camera-heavy mission ever'

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NASA boffins have admitted they expect Thursday's landing on Mars to be "seven minutes of terror" – but have promised that if the mission is successful it will provide "a real feast" of new evidence about the Red Planet.In fact, the $2.7billion (£2billion) Perseverance Rover's mission has been billed as a true "spectacular" that will go down in history as "the most camera-heavy mission of deep space exploration ever".On Tuesday, a pre-landing press conference beamed live around the world saw NASA's top men and women update the public on plans for the landing, and then to go on to collect scientific data and new samples from the planet's surface.Jim Bell, MastCamZ operator for NASA, has participated in all four of the missions to Mars so far.

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