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infection rates have fallen by two thirds in england since the latest lockdown. and in our weekly video for bbc online, we ll look at what it ll take to reopen schools during the pandemic. we start on mars, because in just under two hours time, nasa s perseverance rover will attempt to land on its surface. only 50% of missions to the red planet are successful. it s a nail biting moment for everyone involved. and for quite a few people watching as well. mars is a70 million km away and it s taken the rover seven months to get there. its mission is to search directly for signs of life the first nasa mission to do so since the 1970s. rebecca morelle has a simulation of what the scientists are hoping is about to happen. nasa calls it the seven minutes of terror. an approach to mars at 12,000mph, then, just at the right moment. ..a parachute opens, dramatically slowing it down before a complex landing system brings the perseverance rover down to the ground. that s the plan, but

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