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.