Mars 2020 Launched, Here’s What You Need to Know

NASA's Mars 2020 mission is finally launching. Here's how the Perseverance rover will search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. » Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more Countdown to Launch: http://bit.ly/CTLplaylist » Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com If anyone knows anything about exploring the landscape of Mars it’s NASA. Their four previous rovers, Sojourner; Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity, have travelled around the planet’s surface for years inspecting everything Mars has to offer from rocks to horizons. And now scientists want more than to just look at the red planet, they want a piece of it. So NASA is sending their most advanced rover yet, Perseverance, on their upcoming mission. This mission’s landing site is Jezero Crater, and the launch of the new Mars rover is the first step in a series of proposed missions over the span of a decade to bring samples back, with all of the source material. In this Countdown to Launch we speak with Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist Katie Stack Morgan to find out everything there is to know about the upcoming mission to the red planet, tune in to find out more. #mars2020 #nasa #mars #spaceexploration #science #space #seeker #countdowntolaunch Read More: NASA to Broadcast Mars 2020 Perseverance Launch, Prelaunch Activities https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8716/nasa-to-broadcast-mars-2020-perseverance-launch-prelaunch-activities/ "NASA is targeting 7:50 a.m. EDT (4:50 a.m. PDT) Thursday, July 30, for the launch of its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida." Why NASA trusts a '60s communication network for its $2.7 billion Mars mission https://www.inverse.com/science/mars-2020-communication-network "If NASA fails to maintain that line of communication, then the whole mission goes to waste." The 1st-ever Mars helicopter will start flying next year. Here's how.