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February 19, 2021 at 8:23 am NASA’s Perseverance rover has safely landed on the surface of Mars. The rover touched down in Jezero Crater on the Red Planet at 20:55 UTC on 18 February 2021. Advertisement The successful landing was the culmination of a 203-day journey from Earth that saw it travel a total of 472 million km. The Perseverance Mars rover team look on in Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the mission’s first images of the Red Planet arrive. Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls In a familiar sight for anyone who closely follows NASA’s robotic space probe missions...

Copy to Clipboard An illustration depicts the Perseverance rover operating on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Space exploration is expected to ramp up further in 2021, and Mars promises to be a hot destination. Spacecrafts from three programs — Mars 2020 (US), Tianwen-1 (China), and Hope Probe (the United Arab Emirates or UAE) – are expected to enter the planet’s orbit in February, hoping to start new chapters of exploration there. Here’s what is known so far about each mission.  Mars 2020 Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet is in the not-so-distant future for NA...

NASA's Perseverance Rover 22 Days From Mars Landing Perseverance’s Stages of Descent (Illustration): This illustration depicts the some of the major milestones NASA’s Perseverance rover will go through during its seven-minute descent to the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption › Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet is in the not-so-distant future for the agency’s Mars 2020 mission. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is just 22 days from landing on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft has about 25.6 million miles...