Earthlings have sent three separate missions to Mars which will all reach the Red Planet within the next few days.
One of them was sent by the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and is scheduled to land on 18th February 2021.
NASA’s spacecraft carried the Perseverance Rover (main illustration), a wheeled robotic vehicle which sports a robotic arm built by Motiv Space Systems, whose CEO Robotics and Automation News interviewed in September last year. (See video below.) [Read more…] about Earthlings send three separate missions to Mars
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