NASA's Perseverance Mars rover lands on Red Planet after 300million mile voyage
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mirror.co.ukNASA's Mars rover Perseverance has landed on the Red Planet after a nearly 300million mile journey. Cheers of joy and rapturous applause filled Mission Control back on Earth as the craft touched down without a hitch.
The rover was launched from Cape Canaveral Florida, last July. Its mission is to search the ancient Martian environment for evidence of past life or water.
The seven-month space voyage, officially named Mars 2020, has been nine years in the making. It has already begun snapping pictures from the surface of the alien lake it has landed on.
The rover is exploring the Jezero crater for ancient signs of life. The US Space Agency's ninth mission made a faultless landing ahead of its exploration of the cold, dry red planet.
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