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NASA Rover Perseverance Lands Safely On Mars Thursday – CBS Los Angeles
The rover is also equipped with a mini helicopter that will become the first ever flown on another planet.
PASADENA (CBSLA) — After a nearly seven-month journey spanning almost 300 million miles, the NASA rover known as Perseverance landed safely on Mars Thursday afternoon.
A full scale model of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is displayed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 16, 2021, in Pasadena, Calif. (Getty Images)
The SUV-sized Perseverance, which was built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, was sent to the Red Planet on July 30 of last year from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
NASA said…
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