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