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Topic: Perseverance

NASA's Perseverance (Mars 2020) stores rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve in the area known as Jezero crater on the planet Mars. (NASA/Getty Images)

Mars rover finds signatures of life

Perseverance rover on Mars (Getty Images/dima_zel/iStock)

Mars rover adopts a pet rock by accident

This illustration depicts NASA's Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Perseverance will land at the Red Planet's Jezero Crater (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA wants two more Mars landers

Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Mars' weird geology vexes Perseverance

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Perseverance rover on Mars (NASA)

Mystery of the missing Mars rock solved

NASA's Perseverance (Mars 2020) stores rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve in the area known as Jezero crater on the planet Mars. (NASA/Getty Images)

Martian mystery of the missing rocks

An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Ingenuity survives night alone on Mars

In this concept illustration provided by NASA, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet's surface. (Photo illustration by NASA via Getty Images)

Ingenuity preps for takeoff on Mars

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Alien microbes in space above Mars, conceptual illustration. (Getty Images)

What would Martian life look like?

This illustration shows NASA’s Mars 2020 spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Feb. 18, 2021. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Listen to a spacecraft land on Mars

Perseverance rover on Mars (NASA)

Perseverance sticks its landing on Mars

Life on Mars (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why life may have started on Mars

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