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NASA’s Perseverance rover has a very down-to-Earth mission

By Quin Hillyer
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NASA’s Perseverance rover has a very down-to-Earth mission

The expected Feb. 18 Mars landing of the rover Perseverance is a really big deal.

As I wrote last summer, we should all be full of wonder and gratitude for this mission, which is the very first one designed to collect soil samples and perhaps evidence of Martian life, not just by remote, but for transport back to Earth. This is astonishing stuff.

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