After a 300 million-mile journey through space, the Mars Perseverance rover is ready to begin the most challenging part of the trip: landing on the Red Planet. If successful, it will embark on the most advanced mission ever sent here - to discover if life ever existed on Mars. Hear about the incredibly complex maneuvers needed to land on the Red Planet and how Dr. Moogega Cooper, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's planetary protection lead for Perseverance, and her team are actually protecting Mars.
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KSC-20210205-VP-FJM04_0001-ROCKETRANCH-MOO-3255897
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January 5, 2021
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NASA/Frankie Martin
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