NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully lands on Mars, after a 300 million mile journey that started in Florida

A photo provided by NASA, shows members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team reacting in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via The New York Times)