NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Launches to Look for Life on Mars

A rocket carrying NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover took off from Cape Canaveral on July 30. Its mission: to find signs of life on another planet. It’ll take seven months to get to Mars. The Rover will be drilling for samples in an area called Jezero Crater. It’s known to have once had water. And where there’s water, there may be— or may have been— life, possibly billions of years ago. Finding extraterrestrial life, said NASA scientist Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, “it’s really the holy grail.”