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Biden calls NASA s chief to congratulate him, while sending out a tweet calling the landing historic
NASA s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars following a 239 million-mile journey through space
It entered Martian atmosphere at around 12,000mph and deployed a parachute to slow down before landing
The sky crane maneuver first used on Curiosity in 2012 was employed to get Perseverance to the surface
Perseverance will search for biosignatures in the Jezero crater that is said to be an extinct lake
It will collect samples and cache them across Mars for a separate mission in 2023 to retrieve
Shortly after landing the rover sent back its first images of the Martian surface to NASA headquarters