The Promise of Perseverance – S4E6

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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The Perseverance rover holds many promises: to look for evidence of life on Mars, to collect rock samples meant to be sent to Earth one day, and to test technology that could be used in a future human Mars mission.

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