What the Perseverance rover’s quiet landing reveals about meteor strikes on Mars
The rover’s arrival was a rare chance to see how the Red Planet absorbs energy from impacts
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Caption: NASA’s Perseverance rover (shown touching down on Mars in February) landed a few thousand kilometers away from the lander InSight, which attempted to use seismic waves to detect Perseverance’s arrival.
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