NASA Picks Dry Lake For Mars 2020 Rover Landing

Credit: Jezero Crater: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/MSSS/Brown University
HOUSTON—NASA has selected Jezero Crater, an ancient dry lake with diverse landscapes, from among 64 candidates on the red planet as the landing site for its Mars 2020 rover. The rover is a mechanical geologist charged with gathering and caching rock and soil samples with possible evidence of past...

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