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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2021 — General Studies · Question 65 of 200

Q65
Current Affairs & General KnowledgeScience, Technology, Space & Defence
'Perseverance' rover was successfully landed by NASA on the surface of
  1. a.the Moon
  2. b.the Mars
  3. c.the Jupiter
  4. d.the Sun

Answer: (B) the Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover (Mars 2020 mission), launched on 30 July 2020, landed in Jezero Crater on Mars on 18 February 2021 to look for signs of ancient microbial life and to cache rock samples; it carried the Ingenuity helicopter, the first aircraft to make a powered flight on another planet. Earlier NASA Mars rovers: Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity. Other arrivals at Mars in 2021 were the UAE's Hope orbiter and China's Tianwen-1 with the Zhurong rover; India's Mangalyaan (MOM) entered Mars orbit in 2014.

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