Watch incredible footage of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars’ Jezero Crater in February 2021. This landing began a mission to explore the Red Planet that still continues today. | NOVA l PBS

Let’s take a tour of Mars with NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover 👀 Project scientist Ken Farley walks us through this detailed 360-degree, 2.38-billion pixel panorama made from 993 individual images. | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

This object on the surface of Mars is not a UFO or alien craft. It is human-made debris from a Mars landing mission. Specifically, this is part of the backshell and protective components used during the landing of a Mars rover, such as Perseverance. When rovers land on Mars, parts like: Heat shields Parachutes Backshells are intentionally discarded after slowing the spacecraft down. These parts crash onto the Martian surface and remain there. NASA later captures images of this debris to study la