The Perseverance rover on Mars as imagined by an artist.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet.
NASA’s Perseverance rover hopes to answer our biggest burning question about Mars history: Did the red planet once host life?
The dry, dusty Mars we know today was very different in the deep past. Humanity’s latest rover is making a beeline for an area of Mars that was once home to a lake, a perfect place to look for signs of ancient microbes.
Since Sojourner in 1997, NASA has sent a succession of increasingly sophisticated wheeled explorers to Mars. Perseverance is the latest and greatest and in July 2020, it launches on an epic journey across space.
On a mission
Perseverance will do much more than snap amazing
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