JPL Director Michael Watkins, right, talks with Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk as they and the NASA Perseverance Mars rover team await the landing of the spacecraft in mission control, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith
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JPL Director Michael Watkins, right, talks with Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk as they and the NASA Perseverance Mars rover team await the landing of the spacecraft in mission control, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith