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NASA's Perseverance rover launches in one month

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by JoAnna Wendel
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NASA's Perseverance rover on Martian surface

Mars’s next robotic inhabitant is 1 month away from launch.

NASA’s Perseverance rover is slated to launch in mid-July 2020, and would land on the Red Planet in February 2021.

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