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The Red Planet is getting even more inhospitable over time.

NASA today revealed thrilling footage of its Perseverance rover landing in Mars’ Jezero Crater on 18th February 2021.

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NASA mission control in Southern California received the first status report from Ingenuity late on Friday via the space-based Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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The rover was aiming for Jezero Crater, a place on Mars that scientists think was once home to a lake that dried up 3.5 billion years ago.

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