United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket, equipped with NASA's Mars Perseverance rover, launched Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida:
In the past few weeks, two spacecraft have been launched to the Red Planet, and on Thursday, one more was sent.
United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket, equipped with NASA's Mars Perseverance rover, launched Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.Watch an Atlas V rocket launch NASA's Perseverance rover to MarsPerseverance will bring the space agency one step closer in taking humans to Mars – an initiative that has been a long time coming.
"Basically, Perseverance will bring all human senses to Mars. We'll sense the air around it, see and scan the horizon, hear the planet with microphones on the surface for the first time," Zurbuchen said."Feel it as it picks up samples and caches them. Perhaps even taste ... as other instruments sample the chemistry and the rocks and soil around it. As humans prepare for the greatest adventure here in exploration of Mars, our robots can help.
Throughout its 10-year mission, the rover will search for past signs of extraterrestrial life by collecting and caching Martian rock samples. Then, in 2026, another mission will send a sample return lander to collect the samples and return them to Earth for scientists to study.
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