Life on Mars: Perseverance will search for evidence of alien life in Jezero Crater (Image: NASA)
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The Mars rover touched down on the planet this Thursday, February 18, after a six-and-a-half month journey through the vacuum of space.
Perseverance touched down in Jezero Crater - an ancient basin once believed to have flowed with water - where it will analyse rock samples for chemical evidence of past life.
According to Dr Natalia Zalewska, a planetologist at the Space Research Centre at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), the NASA rover is the right tool for the job.
She said: The rover will be equipped with instruments for the study of life, examining artefacts that come life that may have once been there or even smoulders under the surface.
Perseverance sends 1st colour images of Mars, a selfie too
The selfie is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on February 18
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Washington: NASA s Perseverance rover has sent some stunning photos of the Red Planet, including a high-resolution colour selfie taken during its landing.
The selfie is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on February 18. While NASA s Mars Curiosity rover sent back a stop-motion movie of its descent, Perseverance s cameras are intended to capture video of its touchdown and this new still image was taken from that footage, which is still being relayed to Earth and processed, the US space agency said in a statement on Friday.
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