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With hundreds of worlds in the solar system to explore, it's fair to ask as NASA's Perseverance rover makes its final approach for landing Thursday (Feb. 18): Why do we keep going back to Mars?
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance successfully touches down on the red planet Denise Chow © Provided by NBC News NASA kicked off a new era of Mars exploration Thursday with the successful landing of Perseverance, a car-size robotic explorer that will search for traces of ancient life on the planet and collect what could be the first rocky samples from Mars that are sent back to Earth. The rover touched down at around 3:55 p.m. ET, after executing a daring and dramatic landing that had been nicknamed the "seven minutes of terror." Perseverance is now NASA's fifth rover to land o...
>> 7.5-meters. >> anna: successfully landed this morning. it went through what nasa calls seven minutes of terror. the nerve racking process of defending on -- landing caught on camera by another satellite. within minutes, curiousity beams back the first pictures from inside the crater. here you can see the rover's leg and its shadow. it has been traveling through space for eight months now. it will explore mars, looking for potential signs of life for the next two years. president obama is hoping to raise campaign cash tonight with the help of some hollywood star power. he'll be attending t...