On July 30th 2020, NASA launched the next generation of robotic explorers to the red planet, Mars.
For around seven months, the Perseverance rover travelled through the cold darkness of space, until on the 18th of February 2021, it arrived and began its 7 minutes of terror.
Striking the thin dusty martian atmosphere at nearly 12,500 miles per hour, which 20,000 kilometres an hour, the spacecraft slammed on its brakes, reduced its speed and thankfully settled safely on the sands of another world.
