TER SET TO FLY ON MARS IN £2.4BN SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF LIFE

onths later it should land at the d Planet’s Jezero Crater and gin the process of bringing rocks ck to Earth for study. Perseverance, which was named schoolchildren, will trundle rough the equatorial crater oking for suitable rock samples it n store for retrieval by a later of non-profit organisation Explore Mars, said he hoped the mission would get people talking about space exploration. “I think this launch can really connect everybody to the realities of sending humans to Mars,” he said. “It’s really well timed in the context of what has been happening.”

Technicians working on a NASA wind tunnel in Silicon Valley and astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, left mission. Scientists think this is the best way to establish whether life has ever existed on the planet. The £2.4billion mission also includes a mini-helicopter called Ingenuity, which Nasa hopes will become the first powered aircraft to fly on another planet. Chris Carberry, executive director Chris Gunn’s winning picture of a person facing a wall of air particle filters