NASA’s Perseverance sends back new images from Red Planet

John Zarrella

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover has spent almost a full Earth day on Mars. The new images from “Percy”, as the craft has been nicknamed, has been sent back to Earth.

The Perseveranceroverhad landed on the surface ofMarsafter a 480-million-kilometer journey capped off by a fiery flight through the Martian atmosphere.

CGTN’s John Zarrella reports on the historic landing.

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