NASA's Perseverance Rover has made a successful landing on the surface of Mars.
The rover, the size of a car, completed a 7 month journey to the red planet….and there were nail-biting moments for the scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab as the craft came in for its landing.
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It was a textbook moment…one of the most hazardous complex missions the space agency has ever undertaken as Perseverance completed a 300 million mile journey.
Its cameras are already taking images of Mars space expert Dr. David Whitehouse says soon it will start collecting soil samples in a bid to determine whether there was previously life on the planet.
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