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NASA's search for life on Mars, Europa and Titan CNN 3/3/2021 By Ashley Strickland, CNN © NASA/JPL-Caltech This illustration shows the samples collected by Persevernace leaving Mars so they can return to Earth. When NASA's Perseverance rover begins surveying the Martian surface in the coming months, the robotic explorer will be searching for signs of ancient life. Then, "Percy," as she's known to her team on Earth, will actually collect those samples, and future missions will return them to Earth. © NASA/JPL-Caltech In this illustration, Perseverance uses its drill to ...

NASA's Mars rover had a secret message in its parachute. Meet the man behind it CNN 2/27/2021 By Ashley Strickland, CNN © From NASA/JPL-Caltech This annotated image was taken by a parachute-up-look camera aboard the protective back shell of NASA's Perseverance rover during its descent toward Mars' Jezero Crater. For the thousands of people who work on a spacecraft that journeys to Mars, the result of their efforts often remains unseen once it leaves Earth. That all changed this week when NASA's Perseverance rover returned the first-ever video of a descent through the Mart...

A video shared by NASA on Monday revealed the first-ever look at a spacecraft landing on Mars -- and the internet was quick to take up a challenge to decode a message hidden in the parachute of the Perseverance rover.

See the Martian landscape come to life in the first high-resolution, color image released by NASA from the hazard cameras on the underside of its Perseverance rover.

After a seven-month, 300 million mile journey, Perseverance has landed. And has the first high-definition color pictures of Mars to prove it.