Seven months of travel, 12 minutes of agony, but rover safe on Mars

Friday February 19, 2021

A NASA rover has streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has safely touched down on Mars. (Photo: ABC)

Ground controllers at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, cheered and exchanged high-fives in triumph – and relief – on receiving confirmation on Thursday afternoon (about 0755 AEDT on Friday) that the six-wheeled Perseverance had touched down on…

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