Mars rover Perseverance touches down tomorrow – how to watch and what to expect – Yahoo Finance Australia

There will be one more robot on Mars tomorrow afternoon. The Perseverance rover will touch down just before 1:00 Pacific, beginning a major new expedition to the planet and kicking off a number of experiments from a search for traces of life to the long-awaited Martian helicopter. Here’s what you can expect from Perseverance tomorrow and over the next few years.
It’s a big, complex mission and like the Artemis program, is as much about preparing for the future, in which people will visit the Red…

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