Seven minutes of terror: How NASA's Perseverance will TODAY endure blistering temperatures of 2,370F as it travels 12,000mph through Mars' atmosphere before screeching to a halt using a 'supersonic parachute' and landing on the surface
- NASA's Perseverance rover is set to land on Mars Thursday, February 18 where it will spend two years
- The rover will investigate that Jezero crater in search of biosignatures and take samples from the area
- However, humans' obsession with Mars can be traced back to the third millennium BC
- The Babylonians made the first record of Mars, but only explained it as their god of war
- Today, NASA and other space agency hope Mars will answer one question - is there life on other planets?
