Perseverance

Perseverance Rover being 'sky craned ' down onto the surface of Mars.  (simulation) Credit: JPL/NASA-CALTECH 

" Congratulations to the NASA Perseverance Rover scientfic and engineering teams for the technically spectacular and safe landing of the rover in the Jezero Crater on Mars. The rover will use its onboard equipment to search for the fossilised remnants of ancient life in the Martian regolith and rocks. It will also collect and deposit rock samples for later collection and return to Earth. Finding incontrovertible evidence of the simplest forms of bacterial life on Mars would be sufficient to prove that given the right environment life can spontaneously arise throughout the universe. This would be as significant as determining the Earth is not flat and is in orbit around the Sun". - Joel Cairo CEO of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

First image sent back by the Perseverance Rover from Jezero Crater. The image was taken using one of the rover's hazard cameras. The image is partially obscured by dust and low res.Credit:JPL/NASA-CALTECH 

Illustration of Perseverance at work on the Martian Surface Credit : JPL/NASA-CALTECH

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8865/touchdown-nasas-mars-perseverance-rover-safely-lands-on-red-planet/