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  1. Feb 18, 2021 · Perseverance, NASA’s most sophisticated rover to date, has landed on the surface of Mars. The rover sent back its first images of the landing site immediately after landing on February 18.

    • Solar System and Beyond. Prior to the targeted Dec. 24 launch of the Webb Telescope, NASA this year completed testing and sent the telescope on a 5,800 mile journey by sea to its launch site in French Guiana.
    • NASA Climate, Earth Science. In 2021, NASA’s climate research continued to show how the planet is changing as the agency maintained its role as a leader in understanding climate change.
    • Humans in Space. This was the 21st continuous year of human presence aboard the International Space Station, and the busiest yet. NASA continues to send astronauts to the orbiting laboratory using commercial spacecraft launched from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as well as Russian Soyuz capsules launched from Kazakhstan.
    • Moon to Mars. The agency is targeting launch of Artemis I, an uncrewed flight test of NASA’s powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft that will travel around the Moon in March or April 2022.
  2. Feb 19, 2021 · After safely landing on the surface of Mars Thursday, NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back a never-before-seen view: what it looks like to land on Mars. The rover also returned some new color ...

  3. Feb 22, 2021 · NASA's Perseverance rover has captured amazing first-of-its-kind video of its landing on Mars and recorded the first actual sounds of Martian wind. ... still from the landing on Feb. 18, 2021 ...

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  4. Feb 18, 2021 · The Perseverance rover landed on Mars at 20:55 GMT (15:55 ET) after almost seven months travelling from Earth. It is Nasa's most ambitious hunt for signs of life on Mars since the Viking missions ...

  5. Feb 18, 2021 · The only failure was the Mars Polar Lander in 1999. (Two basketball-size probes carried by that mission that were released during descent and designed to survive impact also did not work ...

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  7. Dec 28, 2021 · A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).

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