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Mars 2020 rover landing: NASA images show expectations vs. reality

by Nick Lucchesi
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Perseverance rover landed safely on Mars on February 18, 2021 — the end of a journey to the Red Planet that began seven months earlier.

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Here's the payload last summer, packed and ready for launch.
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