After an unnerving seven-minute descent, NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars on Thursday afternoon, as part of one of the agency's most ambitious deep space missions to look for signs of ancient life on the red planet."What a great day," said a joyous Steve Jurczyk, NASA's deputy administrator, shortly after the landing was confirmed.
"What an amazing team, the work through all the adversity and all the challenges related to landing a rover on Mars, in addition to the challenges of COVID ... it's just an amazing result," he added.
A few minutes after landing, the rover, nicknamed "Percy", sent its first image to Earth.
The six-wheeled rover is about the size of a car and the mission duration as of now is set for at least one Martian year, or 687 Earth days. Astrobiology is at the core of the mission's goals, and Perseverance is tasked with searching for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. It will also collect carefully selected rock and sediment samples with the goal of eventually returning them to Earth.
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i wish many congratulation nasa for this success, I'm feeling proud for this. Thank you Ali Sami Farooq for convey this news to the people
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