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Nasa’s science rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely on the floor of a vast crater, its first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet.

Mission managers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles burst into applause and cheers as radio signals confirmed that the six-wheeled rover had survived its perilous descent and arrived within its target zone inside Jezero crater, site of a long-vanished Martian lake bed.

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“It really is the beginning of a new era,” Nasa’s associate administrator for science, Thomas Zurbuchen, said earlier in the day during Nasa’s webcast of the event.

Nasa scientists have described Perseverance as the most ambitious of nearly 20 US missions to Mars dating back to the Mariner spacecraft’s 1965 fly-by.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/18/life-on-mars-nasa-keeps-looking-with-perseverance-rover-mission

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7 minutes ago, Lady Papa said:

They've been looking for life on Mars for decades :saladga: Why don't they try looking for life on Chromatica :ally:

as if the situation there is better :lmao:

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River

Mars to Nasa: so baby pull me closer in the backseat of ur rover :emma:

So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy
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PartySick

I sincerely hope we find some ancient traces of life, maybe even present day microbes :pray:

Imagine wondering if we're alone in the universe only to find alien life right next door on the 2nd closest planet to us :tony:

The clouds of Venus, the soil of Mars, the sub-ice oceans of Europa, the hazy surface of Titan, and here on Earth. Life could be a totally common and normal occurrence :wub:

Whimsical bitch
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Jose P
3 hours ago, kukuryku666 said:

i hope we will never find anything and die before going there

>searching for life

>finding life

>exploiting it

>killing it

human race :flop:

Life =/= humanoid life. The most they could find is microorganisms and stuff like that, or traces of that. It would still be a huge feat to find microscopic life, and open the door for many more investigations on extraterrestrial life. But I’m sure they’re not expecting to find humanoid life or anything of the sort, so no exploiting :huntyga:

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