Rover survives 'seven minutes of terror' to embark on 2-year mission to search for extra terrestrial life in a crater that was once a lake
NASA's Perseverance rover has landed on Mars following a 239 million-mile journey through space
It traveled around 12,000mph and deployed a parachute to slow down before landing safely on the surface
The sky crane performed the same landing maneuver as with Curiosity using long Nylon cords
The crane released Perseverance from its grasp and flew to safety, allowing the rover to start its journey
Perseverance will search for biosignatures in the Jezero crater that is said to be an extinct lake
It will collected samples and cache them across Mars for a separate mission in 2023 to retrieve