Hero to Jezero: Perseverance, NASA's most advanced geologist rover, lands on Mars, beams back first pics

Difficult entry, descent, landing process over, now for a search for ancient microbial life

NASA just now successfully landed Perseverance, its largest and heaviest rover yet, on the surface of Mars in the Jezero Crater. The machine will conduct the ambitious mission to finding ancient microbial life on another planet....