Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
15 Feb 2021, 10:49
Updated: 18 Feb 2021, 20:46
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
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NASA'S Mars rover Perseverance hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this week, beginning what engineers at the US space agency are calling its "seven minutes of terror".
The six-wheeled rover is set to emit a radio alert as it streaks into the thin Martian atmosphere, and by the time that signal reaches mission managers some 127million miles (204million km) away, Perseverance will already have landed on the Red Planet – hopefully in one piece.
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