
Perseverance and warty pig paintings
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Aliens and Perseverance
Perseverance has landed in the Yezero crater on Mars. It's a looking for signs of life but not exactly aliens. The rover will collect samples from this dried up river, things like space rocks and space dust. In about five years something called a fish rover will be sent up to collect all those test tubes. Kind of like a big robot Easter egg hunt. Once they're all found, the samples will be blasted into space in a rocket. That will be the first time that we've ever launched a rocket from another planet. They're not expected back until the 2030s.
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