
Nasa’s Mars rover Perseverance makes first trip since touching down
The IndependentSign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa's newest Mars rover set out on its first test drive this week after remaining in place since landing a fortnight ago. Tracks left by the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars during its first test drive "I don't think I've ever been happier to see wheel tracks and I've seen a lot of them," said engineer Anais Zarifian, from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California as the agency released photographs of the trip. Perseverance – Nasa's biggest and most advanced rover yet – became the ninth US spacecraft to successfully land on Mars on 18 February. On Friday, Nasa scientists announced they had named Perseverance's landing site in honour of the late science fiction writer Octavia E Butler, who grew up next door to Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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