NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance is all set to launch today — interesting facts you may not already know

• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will be launching its Mars Perseverance mission on July 30.
  
• The Perseverance rover will be replacing the ageing Curiosity rover on the Red Planet as the first part of a round trip journey.
  
• The rover has a nuclear power source that won’t run out for at least 88 years.

The Mars Perseverance rover is all set to take off from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 30. The US Space Agency is looking to find signs of alien life from when the planet was still thriving with water, and clues that could help understand the impact of climate change on the Red planet.

By testing spacesuit material and technology, the Mars Perseverance aims to collect information that could be useful for human missions in the future.

Here are seven interesting things that you may not already know about NASA’s Mars Perseverance mission: