Life on Mars? NASA set to send new rover to planet

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Tucked inside an Atlas Rocket is NASA's Perseverance Rover is set to go.Next stop- a February landing on Mars.

The robotic vehicle is designed to look for signs of past microbial life that would at last answer the fundamental question: Did life ever exist on the Red Planet?

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