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Mars 2020

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Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission by NASA's Mars Exploration Program including the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter drone. It was launched on 30 July 2020 at 11:50 UTC,[1] and landed in the Jezero crater on Mars on 18 February 2021.

It investigated to see if living organisms lived on Mars and if people can live there.[2][3] The Ingenuity helicopter crashed in January 2024.

References

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  1. "SciGuySpace/status/1278067392703336448". ArsTechnica. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  2. Chang, Alicia (9 July 2013). "Panel: Next Mars rover should gather rocks, soil". Associated Press. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
  3. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.