Meet Perseverance, NASA’s newest Mars rover
The newly named rover will land in a dry river delta in February 2021
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The next NASA Mars rover, Perseverance, took its first drive in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The rover is set to launch to the Red Planet in July.
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