NASA’s Perseverance rover will seek signs of past life on Mars
A plethora of instruments will collect rocks and study the weather on the Red Planet
Perseverance is full of technology to track the weather, collect samples and more.
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NASA’s next rover is a connoisseur of Martian rocks. The main job of the Perseverance rover, set to launch between July 20 and August 11, is to pick out rocks that might preserve signs of past life and store the samples for a future mission back to Earth.
“We’re giving a gift to the future,” says planetary scientist Adrian Brown, who works at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.