Just before 4PM ET on February 18 (this Thursday), NASA’s Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars. Like its predecessor Curiosity, which has …
NASA's Perseverance to Touchdown on Mars: What You Need to Know
After a six-month trek from Earth, NASA's Perseverance rover will reach Mars on Thursday and attempt to become the latest probe to set down on the Red Planet. If successful, it would be the fifth rover to trek the planet's surface and the first since Curiosity touched down in 2012. Perseverance's arrival coincides with spacecrafts from China and the United Arab Emirates that have also reached Mars, though China's and the U.A.E.'s will only be orbiting the planet. Read more on the mission here.
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On the surface, Mars presents itself as a world on the verge of inhospitality. Average temperatures that hover around negative 81 degrees. A thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere sometimes rendered opaque...
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The next robot on Mars will touch down Thursday, and the views will be truly otherworldly.
Scientists leading NASA’s exploration of Mars are anticipating "seven minutes of terror." That’s the time it will take for the Mars rover named Perseverance to touch down on the red planet later this week. Gavino Garay reports.
Editor’s note: Jim Bell is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and has worked on a number of Mars …
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