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Nasa robot heading for a bulls-eye landing
ManuDate: Thursday, 18-February-2021, 7:23 PM | Message # 1
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Jonathan Amos
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The American space agency says its Perseverance rover is lined up perfectly for its landing on Mars.

The robot is heading for a touchdown on Thursday in a crater called Jezero just north of the planet's equator.

Its mission objectives will be to search for signs of past life and to collect and prepare rock samples for return to Earth in the 2030s.

Engineers told reporters that as things stand they don't plan to make any more changes to the robot's trajectory.

All the navigation data indicates it is right on track to intersect Mars at the intended moment in time and space.

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Read more/full article/source - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56091592
 
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