(NASA via AP)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. โ A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars.
Two spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates and China swung into orbit around Mars on successive days last week.
AdPerseverance, the biggest, most advanced rover ever sent by NASA, became the ninth spacecraft since the 1970s to successfully land on Mars, every one of them from the U.S.
โAre we alone in this sort of vast cosmic desert, just flying through space, or is life much more common?
Two older NASA landers are still humming along on Mars: 2012โฒs Curiosity rover and 2018โฒs InSight.