As NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover prepares to land on the surface of the Red Planet on Feb. 18, here are 7 things you need to know about the newest rover to visit Mars: https://go.nasa.gov/2XsSf9T #CountdownToMars | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA has released never-before-seen footage captured by the Perseverance Rover as it touched down on Mars. More than 30GB of information has already been collected from the rover - along with 23,000 images as the vehicle descended. Read more: https://trib.al/nGFheYz | Sky News

On February 18, 2021, NASA successfully landed the Perseverance rover on Mars after traveling about 471 million kilometers from Earth. As it entered the Martian atmosphere at nearly 20,000 km/h, a powerful heat shield protected it from extreme heat. A supersonic parachute then deployed to slow it down. What followed was the intense “Seven Minutes of Terror.” Perseverance separated from the parachute, fired its rockets, and was carefully lowered to the surface using the sky crane system. Once the