If NASA’s newest mission to Mars with the Perseverance Rover survives the harrowing “Seven Minutes of Terror” to make a successful landing Thursday, the Mars Curiosity Rover will no longer be the sole active Rover on the Red Planet.
The Perseverance Rover isn’t the only thing landing on Mars Thursday. Hitching a ride on the rover is the first helicopter designed to fly on another planet.
The car-size rover Perseverance, launched in July 2020, successfully touched down on the Mars surface Thursday afternoon becoming NASA’s fifth rover to land.
A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever.