Nasa sends Perseverance rover to Mars

Nasa’s latest rover Perseverance blasted off from Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida on July 30, 2020, atop an Atlas V rocket on a mission to Mars. It will search for evidence of ancient microbial life on the red planet. Perseverance is also scheduled to deploy a mini-helicopter and try out equipment for future human missions to Mars. Its journey will take around seven months and cover 480 million kilometres (298 million miles). China and the United Arab Emirates got a head start on Nasa…