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After seven months in space, Nasa's Perseverance rover overcame a tense landing phase with a series of perfectly executed maneuvers to gently float down to the Martian soil yesterday and embark on its mission to search for signs of past life.  "Touchdown confirmed," said operations lead Swati Mohan at 3:55 pm Eastern Time (2055 GMT), as mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion

Perseverance has landed: Mars Travel Success! February 18, 2021 Exploring Jezero crater as a habitable environment. Should Mars be on your travel bucket list? The rover known as Perseverance has landed on Mars and is sending back its first images. It has been a 292.5 million-mile, 7-month journey to get there from planet Earth. USGS has a unique perspective on this historic landing. From their point of view, when you’re planning to explore someplace new, it’s always a good idea to bring a m...

NASAs Perseverance rover landed safely in Jezero Crater today at 4:55 p.m. ET. This Mars mission is NASAs most ambitious yet and sets the stage more a decade-long mission to retrieve geologic samples. The rover is set to hunt for evidence of ancient life, launch a helicopter and test a method of generating oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. Update 4:10 p.m. ET: Touchdown! NASAs Perseverance rover has survived its "seven minutes of terror" and safely landed on Mars. Its already taking incred...

Mars 2020 Mission: The Perseverance Rover Landing Mars 2020 Mission February 17, 2021 The excitement of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars can be witnessed on NASA TV starting at 11:15 PST on February 18, 2021. Landing zone for Mars 2020 mission (Credit: Ryan Anderson, USGS). The time is finally here! When you’re planning to explore someplace new, it’s always a good idea to bring a map so you can avoid dangerous terrain. This is true whether you’re heading out for a hike on Earth or ...

Failure could take on many forms next week when NASA’s next-gen rover, Perseverance, reaches the surface of the Red Planet. Here’s what needs to go right—and how things could quickly go sideways—when Perseverance tries to make its much-anticipated landing.