NASA’s latest Perseverance rover launched for Mars on Thursday.
Cape Canaveral, United States:
NASA’s latest Perseverance rover launched for March on Thursday, taking off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on schedule.
The first rocket separation stage took place a few minutes later for the second Centaur rocket to take over, putting it into orbit.
Perseverance is now gearing up for a second burn that will put it on a course to Mars, a journey that will take around seven months and cover 300 million miles (480 million kilometers).
