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More than half a century after Neil Armstrong took mankind’s giant leap on the moon, another space race is heating up. This time, the promising new frontier for Earthlings is Mars, the planet next door.

One of the fondest dreams and top priorities of space science for years has been to bring a piece of Mars back to Earth to study in the kind of depth possible only in a cutting-edge laboratory.

For Las Vegas, the touchdown of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars was a source of both national and community pride.

With the safe landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover Thursday afternoon on the surface of Mars, two scientists at 51�ԹϺ��� will get to take part in the ultimate in distance learning, as members of the NASA team hoping to answer the question, is there, or has there been life on the red planet.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover spent seven months traveling 292 million miles to Mars.

NASA made history Thursday afternoon as the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, and two professors at 51�ԹϺ��� played a part in it.

Two 51�ԹϺ��� scientists working on NASA’s new mission to Mars survived “seven minutes of terror” Thursday as they watched the Perseverance rover’s perilous but perfect landing on the red planet.

It's a big day for exploration on Mars!