NASA/Bill IngallsGetty Images The folks at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory did their usual next-level shit on Thursday. Throwing a dart 128 million miles and hitting the bullseye is really worth celebrating. The new Mars rover Perseverance did exactly what it was supposed to do. It landed, softly, in the Jezero Crater, which is probably an ancient river delta and now, for the next two years, it will look for fossilized pond scum, which would be the most important pond scum in the history of pond scum, which goes back to the beginning of time, both here and there. From the NASA explainer: