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A new era of exploration on Mars has begun. NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on the Red Planet today after a nail-biting descent. Within minutes the first images of the landing site were beamed back to Earth. Those images are just the start to epic quest to not only search for signs of ancient life on Mars but to send samples back to Earth. Eric Sorensen has more.

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