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Are we there yet? Mars rover’s 470-million-km journey nears end
Thursday February 18, 2021
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced robotic astrobiology lab ever flown to another world, is nearing the end of its seven-month, 470-million-km journey, hours away from a daredevil landing attempt on the Red Planet.
NASA’s Perseverance rover. (Photo: ABC)
Perseverance was hurtling through space on track for a bull’s-eye touchdown on Thursday inside a vast basin called Jezero Crater, site of a long-vanished Martian lake bed and river delta, mission managers said on Tuesday.
The primary objective of the two-year, $US2.7 billion mission is a…
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