WHY THE MARS MISSION MATTERS
SINCE time immemorial explorers and scientists have been wondering whether there’s life on other planets. In the interest of finding an answer to this question, NASA’s Perseverance Rover made history this month by landing with cameras to do exactly that on planet Mars.
Weighing more than a tonne, it landed nearly in the middle of the landing zone inside the 45km Jezero crater north of the planet’s equator, which billions of years ago is believed to have housed a Martian lake bed.
The landing was picture perfect and nerve wrecking as its cameras captured the action from several angles, documenting a complex
