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Mike Wehner
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It's now been a couple of weeks since NASA's Perseverance rover landed safely on Mars. The mission almost never left Earth due to the coronavirus pandemic but NASA managed to squeeze the launch in at the very last moment and, after months of travel, the rover managed to stick its landing perfectly. Of course, the main thing a rover has to do is, well, rove, so it's great to see that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory posted a snapshot of the high-tech robot's tracks in the dusty Martian soil.
The rover spent most of its first two-ish weeks proving that it was still healthy. After such a long trip through space and a landing on another planet, the rover could have experienced any manner of component failures, so giving all the systems a check was first on NASA's list. All of the rover's instruments were given a clean bill of health and, after receiving a command to take its first "steps" on Mars, it traveled across the surface.
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