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NASA's latest Mars mission is en route to the red planet after a successful launch taking place on July 30. A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from the Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:50 a.m. Eastern Time. The liftoff occurred on time without any issues announced during the commencement. The main hiccup was a minor seismic tremor felt at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the control place for the mission, without further ado before liftoff; the shake didn't influence the tasks at hand. Launch Details The Mars 2020 shuttle broke itself from the rocket's Centaur upper stage 57 minutes after liftoff and, five minutes following, a second part of the Centaur that set the space apparatus on a direction toward Mars. Location Mars 2020 will convey the Perseverance mission in Jezero Crater, arriving on Feb. 18, 2021. That hole once held a lake with a waterway delta streaming into it, and researchers accept the stones there may safeguard proof of any past Martian life. Goal The researchers will be looking for biosignatures: examples, surfaces or substances that prove the existence of past life, said Katie Stack Morgan, Mars 2020 appointee venture researcher, during a preparation to see the mission. Past Missions The Perseverance rover has a very high bar set for itself, considering the fact that the Curiosity rover has been wandering on the surface of Mars since 2012. The scientists have then explained that the payload is a lot heavier than for Curiosity, which is an innovation in the new rover. Future Missions A lot of that extra payload, and unpredictability, is for the rover’s framework to gather tests of Martian rocks. The rover will reserve up to three dozen examples in tubes for come back to Earth by two later missions that NASA is creating in collaboration with the European Space Agency for dispatch in 2026.

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