Live Breaking News & Updates on Detecting Our Martian Cousins

 
Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet occured on February 18th when NASA’s Perseverance rover a robotic “scientist” weighing 2,260 pounds–parachuted through the tenuous Martian air, marking a new era in red planet exploration. Once at the top of the Red Planet’s atmosphere, a science-fiction movie descent began as it dropped through temperatures equivalent to the surface of the Sun, along with a supersonic parachute inflation, and the first ever autonomous guided landing on Mars delivering the biggest, heaviest, cleanest, and most sophisticated six-wheeled robotic geologist ever launched into space north of the Martian equator.
The rover touched down at the ancient Jezero Crater, a 28 mile-wide impact crater (image below) that the site of home to the remains of an ancient river delta where researchers have found deposits of hydrated silica, a mineral that’s especially good at preserving microfossils and other signs of past life. ....

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