Mars for the first time in history – as NASA chiefs revealed plans to carry a tribute to medics who battled coronavirus to the Red Planet.
NASA scientists today announced the space agency's £1.8bn Perseverance mission will film and record its 12,000mph landing to Earth's closest planetary neighbour on February 18.Matt Wallace, Mars 2020 deputy project manager, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), revealed the Covid-19 pandemic could have stopped the historic launch to Mars to find signs of alien life six months ago.The Perseverance rover is set to land on Jezero Crater after a more than 30 million mile journey – where there was a lake and a "habitable environment" where creatures on Earth "could have thrived" 3.5bn years ago,.
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