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After a 7 month voyage through the cosmos, Perseverance has successfully reached the Martian surface.
The robotic rover's multi-year mission to seek out primordial Martian microbes can now commence.
The craft is already capturing images of its landing site, the Jezero Crater in Mars's northern hemisphere, which may have once been the location of a river that flowed into a lake.
The presence of water adds weight to the theory that the red planet sustained life at one point in its history.
Kitted out with a panoply of high tech gear, Perseverance is capable of surveying Mars for the biosignatures of extinct microorganisms and analysing rock and soil samples.
NASA is also attempting the first powered flight on another planet with an experimental aerial drone tucked under Perseverance's belly.
As NASA administrator Steve Jurcyzk explains, this could open up a variety of exploration opportunities.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Project MiMi Aung can't wait for the drone's deployment.
Another eye-catching experiment planned involves the conversion of C02 into oxygen, which, if successful, would have a significant impact on future expeditions.
Perseverance won't have the red planet to itself for much longer as China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft, which entered the Martian orbit last week, will dispatch its own rover to Mars in May.
