Watch: NASA’s Perseverance captures clearest, closest video to date of solar eclipse on Mars
RELATED: NASA's Perseverance rover beams back first images, audio recordings from MarsPerseverance filmed the video on its 397th day of the Mars mission, which hopes to find signs of ancient life.
Scientists believe that if life ever flourished on Mars, it would have happened 3 billion to 4 billion years ago, when water still flowed on the planet.The rover’s arm drills down and collects rock samples containing possible signs of bygone microscopic life.
Three to four dozen chalk-size samples will be sealed in tubes and set aside to be retrieved eventually by another rover and brought homeward by another rocket ship.The goal is to get them back to Earth as early as 2031.Perseverance is the ninth U.S.
spacecraft since the 1970s to successfully land on Mars.RELATED: NASA's Perseverance rover sends back first HD Mars panorama"I knew it was going to be good, but I didn’t expect it to be this amazing," said Rachel Howson of Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. "It feels like a birthday or holiday when they arrive.
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