CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars.

NASA shows the first image taken and sent by the Perseverance rover showing the surface of Mars just after landing in the Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021 (February 19 in Manila). NASA VIA AP

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