SPACEExperts say bringing people to Mars is probably still decades out despite Elon Musk's plan to bring them to the Red Planet due to different factors at hand.
The NASA Perseverance Mars rover is expected to land on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 3:55pm EST. After a 292.5 million mile journey that began on July 30, the Mars rover will finally touch down on the red planet this afternoon on the U.S. eastern time zone.
The Perseverance rover, the core of the $2.7-billion Mars 2020 mission of NASA, is slated to land on February 18, kicking off a new Red Planet exploration era.
Scientists explain how the Perseverance rover will be searching for signs of life on Mars, starting with the Jezero Crater. They hope to find traces of Martian microbes in what used to be a lake.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) campaign dubbed, "Send Your Name to Mars" has attracted the people from all over the world to send their respective names "to ride aboard" the next rover of the agency to the Red Planet.