Crater investigators: Exploring Mars from afar | Particle – Particle

What can impacts from space teach us about the red planet?
NASAs Perseverance rover launched last week, on a mission to collect the first samples of Mars to return to Earth. To pull that off, theyll have to nail a precision landing on autopilot – and then figure out how to pull off an even more delicate take off.
But spacecraft arent the only thing landing on the surface of Mars. Its also regularly smashed by rocks from outer space – and those landings, while much messier, can tell us just as …

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