NASA Rover Lands On Mars, First Step In Sample Return

Perseverance’s view of Mars
An engineering camera captured the first picture following Perseverance’s landing on Mars.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
With the arrival of NASA’s newest rover, scientists can begin a strategic shift in the exploration of Mars, building on searches for past water, organics and habitable environments into a mission to cache samples that may contain evidence of life and return them to Earth for analysis. The...

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