Mars rover begins search for alien life on Red Planet - BBC News

NASA has successfully landed a new rover on Mars, in the most ambitious mission yet to the planet.

After a seven month journey through space, the rover called Perseverance survived a perilous high-speed plunge through the Martian atmosphere and made it safely down to the surface of the red planet, confirming its arrival with a tweet.

It's the most advanced rover ever sent to another planet and it’s hoped it will eventually return samples to Earth. Its mission is to search for ancient life that may have existed billions of years ago.

Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by science correspondent Rebecca Morelle.

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[chunderpapa]

Imagine chilling at home, then some car with like 8 wheels and a camera just drives through your house.

[Mr-.Facts.]

Fun fact: The radiation on Mars is pretty bad

[drvir]

NASA : Sending rockets and rovers to find alien life.
Elon Musk : Smiles in alien

[nickolioo]

No one:

UK government:breaking news a new mars variant has come to the UK

[inprogress]

One small step for robots, one huge step for mankind. 🤖

[AlienWithInternetConnection]

Fun fact: Discovering the mere existence of a miscroscopic life on Mars would insist that life in the Universe is quite common, thus suggesting that other life forms could exist or could have existed in other planets.

[AnujKumar-omzx]

Hi NASA
Don't disturb my plantation and farm house there, I told you.

[muhammadasawarakram]

I didnt even left my house for 3 months and this dead thing reached Mars

[lilmanq]

Damn can’t believe I’m living in this generation

[calumcarmichael]

This is it, boys, the zombie's outbreak is coming

[robbrenton]

NOBODY can say the word, "Billions" quite as well as Carl Sagan can

[ydvizfw]

Just imagine how everyone is going to react when they see the first living thing walking around.

[dee]

What if we find other humans that migrated and are just chilling underground eating sand all day

[Mike_]

They are trialling this Rover for use in Essex next ...

[Concept_]

anyone who doesn't think this is cool and thinks this is a waste of money needs to re-think life

[iaw]

Imagine if it kills the last remaining microbe

[jamesburrows]

We all know they're about to find evidence of Transformers on Mars, then Sector 7 will just cover it all up 😂😂.

[zingerburger]

As if we were living so peacefully on earth.

[xxxTEDSTRIKERxxx]

be funny if it found life in like - 5 mins...by driving over it

[hancocksthaiboys]

Can't feed everyone on this planet nor provide clean drinking water BUT we have two rovers on Mars! Hallelujah! Praise humanity!