direct to your inboxNasa’s Perseverance rover has safely landed on Mars and sent back its first images of the red planet.The rover is on a mission to search for signs of ancient life, and explore and collect samples from diverse environments on Mars.It joins another Nasa rover, Curiosity, which landed on the planet in 2012.
Perseverance blasted off from Earth in July last year and safely landed on the planet on Thursday (February 18) after "seven minutes of terror" on entering the planet's atmosphere, the space agency said.
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