NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover landed on the Red Planet Thursday, nearly seven months after its liftoff from the Space Coast. Perseverance launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket on July 30, 2020, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Its target: the Jezero Crater, where it will look for signs of past life on Mars. Kennedy Space Center recently completed the second phase of an ongoing project to plant vegetation on about 4 and a half miles of dunes along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The sandbanks protect the center’s critical space facilities, launch infrastructure, workforce, and wildlife from severe weather threats like hurricanes and tropical storms.
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