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The number of times the United States has successfully landed a rover on Mars. Perseverance became the fifth rover to touch down on the Red Planet Thursday after a journey of 480 million kilometres.
Perseverance rover lands safely on Mars
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NASA rover lands in Mars; sends first images
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Members of NASA’s
Perseverance Mars rover team watch in mission control as the first images arrive moments after the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Perseverance, the largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world and one that is supported by numerous composite materials and structures touched down on Mars on Feb. 18 after a 203-day journey in space traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST).
Packed with groundbreaking technology, the Mars 2020 mission launched July 30, 2020, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The