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Space 11 February 2021
NASA’s latest Mars rover is approaching its final descent to the surface. Perseverance, the largest vehicle ever to attempt to land on the Red Planet, is due to touch down on 18 February.
Landing on Mars is difficult: about 60 per cent of the missions that have tried it to date have failed. Perseverance will have a similar landing sequence to the Curiosity rover, which arrived successfully in 2012, with a heat shield and parachute slowing it down from about 20,000 kilometres per hour to less than 4 kilometres per hour before a “sky crane” lowers the vehicle gently to the ground.