Striking NASA animation reveals the harrowing descent to Mars that the Perseverance rover is about to attempt
NASA’s Perseverance rover is set to plunge to Mars and land in an ancient lake bed on February 18. The spacecraft must weather a fiery 12,000-mph plunge, deploy a supersonic parachute, and navigate to safety with a jetpack. A realistic NASA animation shows that nail-biting descent in detail. NASA’s newest interplanetary robot is about to […]
