The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover has already transmitted thousands of images to NASA

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Each new rover that NASA lands on Mars teaches us new things about the planet, which may help humans one day live and work there.

On February 18, 2021, the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover landed on Mars, becoming the fifth United States rover to successfully set down on the Red Planet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the Perseverance Rover with an Atlas V-541 rocket on July 30, 2020 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Since Perseverance landed on Mars, it has been sending back videos and photos from the surface, providing humanity with fresh views of our planetary neighbor. Though the new images can add to our understanding of the planet, the rover’s main mission is to search for evidence of ancient microbial life while simultaneously paving the way for a human presence on Mars.

Each new rover that NASA lands on Mars teaches us new things about the planet, which may help humans one day live and work there. Though it hasn’t even been a month since it touched down, here is everything Perseverance has sent back from Mars.

The latest images from Mars

Four days after the landing, NASA uploaded footage of Perseverance landing on Mars. The footage, shot from the rover itself, shows the planet’s reddish, pockmarked surface rising up to the Perseverance as the rover…