Space Research
NASA has successfully sent its rover named Perseverance to Mars. On February 18, 2021, the Rover Perseverance successfully landed at location marked as Jezero Crater on Mars. This mission is given the name Mars 2020 and it intends to explore the possibility of existence of life in past, present and future.
Image Credit: The Perseverance rover team celebrated the spacecraft’s successful landing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday.Credit…Bill Ingalls/NASA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission has a new experimental helicopter called Ingenuity. This is the first time a helicopter has been designed to fly in the atmosphere of a remote planet. Ingenuity weighs 1.8 Kilograms.
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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/18/science/nasa-mars-landing#cheers-erupted-in-the-control-room-as-nasas-rover-reached-the-red-planet
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/18/science/nasa-mars-landing#cheers-erupted-in-the-control-room-as-nasas-rover-reached-the-red-planet