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NASA's 'Perseverance' Rover Has Launched, Will Hunt For Life On Mars
This illustration depicts NASA's Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Perseverance will land at the Red Planet's Jezero Crater a little after 12:40 p.m. PST on Feb. 18, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA launched its Mars Rover "Perseverance" this morning from Cape Canaveral. A project like this requires a lot of people behind the scenes, and one of them is a native Angeleno.
"I grew up in South Central L.A. over in the Crenshaw area and went to school at Cal Poly Pomona, so I stayed an L.A. native basically my entire life," said Luis Dominguez, a Jet Propulsion Lab engineer with Mars 2020 who helped with the rover assembly:
"I originally got into engineering because I wanted to build airplanes and I was just fascinated by how airplanes worked and at some point in 7th grade I found out that aerospace engineers design and build airplanes so that kinda set my trajectory in life."
The rover is expected to land on the red planet in February.
Onward to Mars, together. #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/uDZHxq7gHX
— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) July 30, 2020
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- Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover (NASA)
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