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Life-hunting Perseverance rover is halfway to Mars – EarthSky
NASA announced that its Perseverance rover mission – which will search for evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars – has now passed the halfway mark in its journey…
NASA’s Perseverance rover has just passed the halfway mark to Mars, a big milestone for the mission. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech.
NASA’s newest Mars mission, the Perseverance rover, is now halfway to the red planet, the space agency announced on Tuesday, October 27, 2020. It’s the latest milestone for the mission that will be the first since the Viking 1 and 2 landers in the 1970s/1980s to look directly for evidence of microbial life on Mars.
Julie Kangas, a navigator for the mission, said in a…
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