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World / Science & Health Feb 23, 2021

Mars rover sends home movie of daredevil descent to landing on red planet

by Steve Gorman

NASA scientists on Monday unveiled first-of-a-kind home movies from last week's daredevil Mars rover landing, vividly showing its supersonic parachute inflation over the red planet and a rocket-powered hovercraft lowering the science lab on wheels to the surface.

World / Science & Health | FOCUS Feb 20, 2021

The U.S. has sent five rovers to Mars — when will humans follow?

While the trip is technologically almost within grasp, experts say it's probably still decades out because of funding uncertainties.