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The space agency’s Perseverance Rover is due to touch down today after making the 293 million mile journey from Earth to Mars. The probe will buzz across the Martian sky at 12,000mph, before slowing itself down by deploying a 70-foot-wide parachute and setting in a crater littered with boulders. If all goes to plan, Perseverance will successfully complete its mission this evening at around 8.43pm, and will soon start work on to determine whether the planet was once habitable.
USRA Scientists Serving on Science Team for NASA s Mars 2020 Mission and Perseverance Rover
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COLUMBIA, Md., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ After six months, more than 300 million miles and seven precarious minutes, NASA s spacecraft Mars 2020 and the rover Perseverance will have landed on Mars. And USRA scientists are part of a team supporting this ambitious endeavor.
The geology of Jezero shows that it was once a lake filled with liquid water. The points where the rivers flowed into Jezero left deposits of sand and mud, and scientists have evidence that there is a channel where water flowed out of the lake. The delta, the lake bottom and the lake s shorelines all had an environment that could have supported ancient microbial life.
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