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NASA’s Perseverance rover watched as its sky crane crashed on Mars

March 1, 2021  By Crane & Hoist Canada


Perseverance is the centrepiece of the $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, which will collect and cache dozens of samples for eventual return to Earth. Photo: NASA

The Perseverance Mars rover’s “sky crane” descent stage made the ultimate sacrifice last week, and we now have a photo to memorialize the flying robot’s heroic death. Space.com reports. | READ MORE

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