Perseverance on Mars: "The start of a fabulous period of scientific studies"
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NASA Perseverance rover team members react to the successful Mars landing from California on February 18, 2021. via REUTERS - BILL INGALLS / NASA
By: Charlotte Derouin
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NASA brilliantly succeeded Thursday evening in landing its Perseverance rover on Mars, the fifth vehicle only to have made the trip without a hitch, but the first to post the objective of finding, in the years to come, proof of past life on the red planet.
Perseverance traveled more than 470 million kilometers in 203 days.
The landing maneuver was perilous and the site chosen, the crater of Jezero, the most risky ever attempted, because of its relief.
Lighting by Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the National Center for Space Studies (Cnes).
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