NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is just over a month from its July 20 launch date. The rover’s astrobiology mission will search for signs of microscopic life spent on Mars, explore the geology of the Jezero crater landing site, and present key technologies to help prepare for future robotic and human exploration. And the rover will do all this by collecting the first samples of Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust) for the return to Earth by a set of future missions.
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