After launching nearly six months ago, NASA’s Perseverance Rover has finally landed on Mars and the Bay Area’s NASA Ames Research Center played a big part in making it happen.
The Perseverance Rover, which touched down on the red planet Thursday, is the first of three missions aimed to collect Martian soil samples. This project, which started in 2013, is called the Mars Sample Return.
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