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US Mars probe'Personality' landed on Mars after more than six months of flight.
The state-of-the-art nuclear-powered robotic vehicle is tasked with finding traces of life on Mars and preparing for future manned exploration.
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entering the Mars atmosphere at 16 times the speed of sound,'Purservance' opened a parachute and landed on'Craters as an example'.
After flying 470 million kilometers for six months, it settled and sent a message saying'Hey the world,' and a picture of the landing site.
[Thomas Jurbuchen/Deputy Director of NASA: All specimens collected while traveling on the surface of Mars are valuable data to be brought to Earth.] If the
nuclear-powered robot car Perservance collects and analyzes the soil and rocks and stores them, it will be stored in the future. Ten years later, another probe will fly to Mars and bring samples to Earth.
The small helicopter on the Perseverance also tests its first powered flight on Mars.
[Steve Jerke/NASA Administrator: Not only will we check the evolution and existence of life on Mars, but we will also prepare for humans to go to Mars for their mission.]
This is the 9th time the US probe successfully landed on Mars
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So far, six countries, including Russia and the European Union, have successfully entered Mars orbit, but only the United States has successfully landed.
Mars is currently in orbit with probes sent by China and the United Arab Emirates.
The race to explore Mars is getting fiercer, with Elon Musk, who leads SpaceX, vowing to send people to Mars in 2026.