The Perseverance Rover is just a few months away from completing its 300 million-mile journey to the surface of Mars, and NASA wants you to know about it.
On Monday night, the space agency released a one-minute “mission trailer” that looks less like an advertisement for a highly anticipated science event and more like a teaser for a new Ridley Scott movie – music full of heart and all these.
If the Perseverance landing in the Jezero Crater of Mars is successful, the little robot will be tasked with collecting climate and geological information, rock and soil samples and signs of microbial life on the red planet. It launched in July and is set to land on February 18, 2021, with live comments about the event starting at 11:15 AM PST on nasa.gov/live.
Godspeed, rover.