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Perseverance Is About to Face '7 Minutes of Terror': Surviving a Brutal Mars Landing


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Perseverance will start roving around Mars in just a few short days. Equipped with a rock-blasting laser, microphones, a helicopter, and much more, the rover it will hunt for ancient life, cache samples for return to Earth, and pave the way for human explorers by plucking oxygen from Mars' thin air.