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A photograph reportedly taken from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover was said to capture what the surface of the red planet looked like, including a dramatic skyscape of the Milky Way illuminated by vibrant shades of pinks and purples.
Perseverance touched down on Feb. 18 and will spend the next two years drilling and collecting rock, visual, and audio samples to help scientists on Earth determine whether Earth’s celestial cousin was once home to other life. In the week after its landing, “Percy” sent back selfies, photographs of a Martian sunset, and carried with it a secret message hidden in the folds of its parachute.
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The rover is only the fifth ever to set its wheels down on Mars. The feat was first accomplished in 1997 and all so far have been American.
It is part of an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.
Watch a video of the landing above.
Weather conditions were favorable in the Martian northern hemisphere spring, but nothing is taken for granted.
“This is one of the most difficult maneuvers that we do in this business, and almost 50 percent of the spacecraft that had been sent to the surface of Mars have failed,” Matt Wallace, the mission’s deputy project manager said.