KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – NASA’s $2 billion upcoming mission to Mars is the space agency’s most complex ever to the red planet.NASA built its Mars 2020 rover in California and it arrived in February at Kennedy Space Center ahead of a summer launch.A seventh-grader won the contest to name the rover, “Perseverance.”NASA rovers first reached the surface of Mars in the 90s, but Perseverance is expected to be the first to bring home samples.
Last month, NASA scientists installed the rover’s sample collection tubes."One day when we send humans to Mars, we're gonna know where to go to get the absolute best science and data we can get," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said.The exploration also includes a search for ancient signs of.