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  • How long will the rover be on Mars?
    about two years
  • What will the rover search for?
    fossils and other signs of past life
  • Where did NASA hide their secret message on the rover?
    in the pattern on the rover's parachute
  • How many miles did the rover travel to get to Mars?
    300 million miles
  • What speed did the rover fall through Mars's atmosphere at?
    12, 100 miles per hour
  • Besides scientific instruments, what else is the rover carrying?
    a small helicopter called Ingenuity
  • What does NASA's secret message say?
    "Dare mighty things."
  • At one time, what was Mars's atmosphere like?
    thick and warm
  • What are two of the rover's scientific instruments?
    a camera; an x-ray instrument; a rock-busting laser; an instrument to test the possibility of making oxygen out of carbon dioxide
  • What day did the rover land on Mars?
    February 18
  • What will the rover explore?
    the Jezero Crater
  • How long did it take the rover to reach Mars's orbit?
    nearly seven months
  • Who launched the rover?
    NASA
  • How many American spacecrafts have set down on Mars?
    9
  • How big is the rover?
    car-sized
  • What is 'binary code'?
    the language of computers
  • What is the only other nation that has reached Mars?
    the former Soviet Union, now mostly part of Russia
  • What is the name of the rover that recently landed on Mars?
    Perseverance
  • Who cracked NASA's secret message hidden on the rover?
    Maxence Abela and his dad, Jerome
  • What is the main idea of the article?
    NASA's rover Perseverance landed on Mars and will explore the planet for evidence of past life.
  • After Mars lost most of its atmosphere and nearly all of its water, what did it turn into?
    a frigid desert
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