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NASA Perseverance rover launches to Mars to cache signs of life [i]NASA's first Mars mission devoted to searching for and caching signs of life for a future return to Earth is now on its way to the Red Planet. The U.S. space agency's Mars 2020 mission, which includes a six-wheeled rover named "Perseverance" and a small helicopter called "Ingenuity," lifted off atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Thursday (July 30). The 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT) launch began the mission's seven-month, 300 million-mile (480 million-kilometer) journey to Mars, which will culminate in the so-called "seven minutes of terror," otherwise known as entry, descent and landing, on Feb. 18, 2021, into Jezero Crater located on the western edge of a giant impact basin just north of the planet's equator.[/i]
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