The NASA craft is carrying a twin-rotor, solar powered helicopter which may soon become the first aircraft to fly over an alien world.
On 30 July, NASA’s Perseverance rover blasted off into space aboard an Atlas V rocket and began its 6-month journey towards Mars, on a mission to further mankind’s knowledge of the Red Planet.
The craft is expected to touch down in the vicinity of the Jezero crater in February 2021, which, some 3.
