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Perseverance touched down in an ancient river delta that may contain signs of whether the planet ever harbored microbial life.

Biden calls NASA's chief to congratulate him, while sending out a tweet calling the landing 'historic' NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars following a 239 million-mile journey through space It entered Martian atmosphere at around 12,000mph and deployed a parachute to slow down before landing   The sky crane maneuver first used on Curiosity in 2012 was employed to get Perseverance to the surface  Perseverance will search for biosignatures in the Jezero crater that is said to be an extinct lake It will collect samples and cache them across Mars for a separate mission in 2...

Before the dust of the landing had even cleared, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped two photos of its new home: Jezero Crater.

NASA has successfully landed a third explorer on Mars. The Perseverance carries a small drone which will explore the red planet.

For the last 10 months, the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission has been on a long and lonely journey through space, headed for its ultimate destination:...