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Why the red planet captures our imagination in movies and books
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Popular interest in Mars is long-established, but has enjoyed two dramatic flowerings, one in the 1890s and the other a century later. Two developments have quickened current media attention: the revelation by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in August 1996 that it possessed a small meteorite which might have come to Earth from Mars and might contain fossils of primitive life forms; and the dispatch to Mars, by NASA, of spacecraft designed to scrutinise the planet, and to land on it. The Mars Pathfinder touched down on July 4th, 1997. Soon the public could see for itself the marvel of a small vehicle moving about the rust-red sands of Mars, controlled from Earth some 119 million miles away.
Biden calls NASA s chief to congratulate him, while sending out a tweet calling the landing historic
NASA s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars following a 239 million-mile journey through space
It entered Martian atmosphere at around 12,000mph and deployed a parachute to slow down before landing
The sky crane maneuver first used on Curiosity in 2012 was employed to get Perseverance to the surface
Perseverance will search for biosignatures in the Jezero crater that is said to be an extinct lake
It will collect samples and cache them across Mars for a separate mission in 2023 to retrieve
Shortly after landing the rover sent back its first images of the Martian surface to NASA headquarters