NASA successfully launched its latest Mars rover, Perseverance this morning to seek out ancient signs of life (and maybe fly a mini-helicopter)
NASA successfully launched its latest Mars rover, Perseverance, Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending the space program’s most sophisticated rover yet to the Red Planet to gather rock samples that will enable scientists to potentially find signs of “ancient microbial life.”...
The rover will also test out other technologies for future exploration on the planet, including releasing a mini-helicopter that would mark the first instance of powered flight on another planet.NASA and the European Space Agency are scheduled to launch a dune buggy in 2026 that would fetch whatever samples Perseverance collects and set them into orbit around Mars, which will then be collected by a subsequent spacecraft and sent back to Earth.
The U.S. launch is the third Mars launch this month, following launches by the United Arab Emirates and China, as scientists took advantage of a short window in which Mars and Earth’s locations in orbit make launch conditions ideal., enabling people on Earth to see and hear the Mars rover’s mission.... [+]
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