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  1. Feb 19, 2021 · Niall McCarthy, Feb 19, 2021. After a mammoth 293 million mile journey, NASA's Perseverance rover safely touched down safely on the surface of Mars. The six-wheeled rover landed inside the Jerezo ...

  2. Mars' Calendar. Time on Mars is easily divided into days based on its rotation rate and years based on its orbit. Sols, or Martian solar days, are only 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than Earth days, and there are 668 sols (687 Earth days) in a Martian year.

  3. Dec 28, 2021 · The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

  4. Liftoff from Earth. NASA's Perseverance Rover began its long journey to Mars on July 30, 2020 by successfully launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a ULA Atlas V rocket. It began its seven-month journey to the Red Planet, landing there on Feb. 18, 2021. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

  5. Jun 8, 2021 · NASA selected two new missions to study the second planet from the sun. These two missions will set out to understand how Earth’s sister planet may have been the first habitable planet in the ...

  6. Jul 9, 2021 · Its mass is 81.5% of that of the Earth, 85.7% the volume and ~90% by surface area. Its surface gravity is 8.87 m/s2 compared to 9.80665 m/s 2 for Earth. In comparison, Mars has 15.1% the volume of ...

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  8. Jul 13, 2021 · Venus, Mars and the moon will appear close in the night sky on the evenings of Monday, July 12, and Tuesday, July 13. Venus and Mars will appear only half a degree apart in a planetary conjunction.