In this handout image provided by NASA, members of the Perseverance rover team react in mission control after the successful landing.

This image made available by NASA shows an illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover deploying a supersonic parachute as it slows down before landing.

Members of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover team watch as the first images arrive from this mission.

This image made available by NASA shows an illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars.

Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk and a model of the Perseverance rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Feb. 18.

Perseverance flight director Magdy Bareh moves the final marble from the Earth launch jar to the Mars landing jar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Feb. 18.

A handout picture of Mars provided on February 14 by the United Arab Emirates Space Agency.

Space expert Ye Peijian L discusses his country's Mars mission with colleagues at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center.

Data analyst Noora Saeed Al Mheiri speaks to the media in Dubai about the UAE's Mars mission.

Dubai's Burj Khalifa is lit up in red with a slogan reading in Arabic, "Mission accomplished" on February 9 after the nation reached Mars.

A man walks past a celebratory sign at Burj Park in Dubai on February 9.

Artist Luke Jerram admires his huge model of Mars recently installed at London's Natural History Museum.