Photo: twitter account of NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
BEIJING (Global Times): Dubbed the largest, most advanced rover the US space agency Nasa has ever sent to another world,"Perseverance" nailed its safe landing at the preset site on Mars on Thursday (Feb 18), drawing a conclusion to its 203-day journey, covering more than 470 million kilometres from Earth.
The successful touchdown, which was announced at mission control at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California around Beijing time 5am on Friday (Feb 19), immediately thrilled Chinese social media users, with the topic rocketing atop of China's microblogging giant Sina Weibo search list, gathering nearly 30 million views and more than 2,500 comments as of press time.
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