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NASA's generations Mars Perseverance blasted unde's Lage Canaveral on Thursday atop at Attas 5 rocket on a 124 m for traces of potential past life on artice planetary neighbor.

The next-generation robot ever tar sized t-sheeted scente vehicle also is scheduled to deginy a mini helicopter on Mars and test out equipment for future human missions to the fourth planet from the ann. 11 is expected to reach Mars next February.

It soured into the sky under clear, sunny and warm conditions camed by an Atlas 5 rocket from the Bocing Lockheed joint venture Drated Launch Alliance The launch took place after the Jet Propulsion Laboratory In California where its mission engineers were located was rattled by an earthquake.

This marked NASA's ninth journey to the Martian surface. Perseverance is due to land at the base of an 820-foot-deep (250 meters) crater called Jeeet former lake from 3.5 billion years ago that scientists suspect could bear evidence of potential past microbial life on Mars.

Scientists have long debated whether Mars-once a much more hospitable place than it is today-ever harbored life. Water is considered a key ingredient for life, and Mars billions of years ago had lots of it on the surface before the planet became a harsh and desolate outpost.

One of the most complex maneuvers in Perseverance's journey will be what mission engineers call the seven minutes of terror, when the robot endures extreme heat and speeds during its descent through the Martian atmosphere, deploying a set of supersonic parachutes before igniting mini rocket engines to gently touch down on the planet's surface.

This was scheduled as the third launch from Earth to Mars during a busy month of July, following probes sent by the United Arab Emirates and China. The state from which the rover was launched, Florida, is currently one of the hot spots
in the United States for the coroniavus pandemic.

Aboard Persevernicie in four-pound ( 1.8 kg) her named Ingenuity that is due to test powered flight on Mars for the first time.


Since NASA's Best Mars rover Sojourner landed in 1997, the agency last www.others-Spirit and Opportunity that have explored the logo of Martinn plains and detected signs of past water formations among other discoveries NASA also has miccessfully sent three landers Poldindey, Poets Insight


The United States has plans to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s under a program that envisions using a return to the moon as testing platform the human missions before making the more ambitious crewed journey to Mars Perseverance will conduct an experiment to convert elements of the carbon dioxide-rich Martian atmosphere into propellant for future rockets launching off the planet's surface, or to produce breathable oxygen for future astronauts


The rover also is intended to help bring Martian rock samples back to Earth collecting materials in cigar-sized capsules and leaving them in various spots on the surface for retrieval by a future "fetch rover. That planned rover is expected to launch the samples back into space to link up with other spacecraft for an
eventual Earth homecoming around 2031.-Reuters Jon GMA News Outine

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