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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover ready for the biggest off-roading adventure yet

Six-wheeled explorer is set to launch for the Red Planet on Thursday

With eight successful Mars landings, NASA is upping the ante with its newest rover. The spacecraft Perseverance — set for liftoff this week — is NASA’s brawniest and brainiest Martian rover yet. It sports the latest landing tech, plus the most cameras and microphones ever assembled to capture the sights and sounds of Mars.

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In an interplanetary first, NASA to fly a helicopter on Mars

Rotors will spin 10 times faster in Red Planet's thin atmosphere

NASA said on Friday it will send a small helicopter to Mars as part of the U.S. space agency's 2020 mission to place a next-generation rover on the Martian surface, marking the first time such an aircraft will be used on another world.