NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars – here’s what happens next

[Mike Wehner]

• NASA's years-long Perseverance program has just crossed a major milestone with a successful landing on the Red Planet.
• Perseverance landed just as NASA planned, and it goes without saying that the mission controllers and engineers were elated with the outcome.
• Now that the rover has landed, the fun stuff can begin, with scientific research and even a helicopter flight or two.

A mission many years in the making has just hit its stride, with NASA's Perseverance rover successfully entering the Martian atmosphere, cruising to the surface, and landing, all while remaining in one piece. That's harder than it might sound, and NASA's team celebrated the incredible accomplishment briefly before looking toward the future, which will be filled with scientific discoveries and, hopefully, a whole bunch of awesome images of Mars.

The Perseverance rover is the biggest undertaking of all the Mars rover missions. It's packed with advanced technology and instruments that will allow it to study the material covering the surface of the planet as it slowly explores the Jezero crater where it landed. In the near future, NASA will get to begin the exciting work of conducting science with the rover, and it even brought a friend along for the ride.

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