NASA’s Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars — The Third Martian Arrival in a Week

Mars is receiving visitors these days.  Quite a few of them. The most prominent visitor is NASA's Perseverance rover,  which made a difficult but smooth precision landing at 3.55 ET  this afternoon. The rover now sits in Jezero Crater, in an area that clearly once had lots of water flowing.   The site was selected, in …