NASA's big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home
- Written by Briony Horgan, Associate Professor of Planetary Science, Purdue University
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., engineers observed the first driving test for the Mars rover, Perseverance. Perseverance will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize Mars' climate and geology, and collect samples for a future return to Earth. NASA/JPL-CaltechThis summer, NASA is taking the...
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