HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA's most advanced robotic rover "Perseverance" for the 'Mars 2020' mission is now roaming the planet for signs of life.
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center celebrated with a pre-launch livestream today.
"There are so few opportunities to explore the surface of other planets and we're very fortunate with Mars," says says U.S. Space & Rocket Center INTUITIVE Planetarium Director, David Weigel.
Speakers included Weigel, a planetary scientist, Dr. Caleb Fassett from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center ,and USSR Space Camp alumnus Alexander Mathers.
Mathers, an eighth grader from Virginia, helped name the rover that we know today as "Perseverance". Leaders say this mission just scratches the surface.
"Marshall Space Flight Center is in Huntsville and they have a whole planetary sciences division and so those scientists as well as people all over the world is going to be using this data as soon as it's back," says Weigel.
