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Credit: NASA Over its mission time of one Mars year (which translates to about 687 Earth days), the Perseverance — NASA's ninth mission to land on Mars — will collect rock and soil samples in the hopes of finding evidence of ancient life on Earth's closest neighboring planet. "To quote Carl Sagan," Gentry Lee, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement, "'If we see a hedgehog staring in the camera, we would know there's current and certainly ancient life on Mars, but based on our past experiences, such an event is extremely unlikely. Extraordinary claims require extraordinar...

After NASA attempts Thursday to land the biggest, heaviest vehicle sent to Mars yet, scientists have planned an ambitious mission for exploration of the Red Planet's surface and collection of samples to be sent home.

NASA's newest Mars rover, Perseverance, is in good shape and has begun programming and preparation for its descent to the Red Planet surface Thursday.

Scientific American As Perseverance Approaches Mars, Scientists Debate Its Sampling Strategy The car-sized rover is the first step in an ambitious effort to bring pieces of the Red Planet back to Earth, but some crucial details remain undecided By: Credit: Nick Higgins Credit: Nick Higgins For anyone invested in NASA’s decades-long efforts to robotically explore Mars, now is the time for nail-biting. Launched last July and barreling toward the Red Planet and Jezero Crater is the space agency’s Perseverance rover, cocooned in heat-resistant shielding and set for a terrifying, technicall...