Thanks to its six-wheel drive, the Perseverance rover successfully completed its first test drive on the Red Planet and sent photos of its wheel prints to the ground, U.S. space agency NASA said. The six-wheeler’s forward and backward travel lasted just 33 mi…

The rover, which weighs about a ton, has a two-meter-long cybertracker, 19 video cameras, two microphones and a string of modern devices. To date, the rover has uploaded more than 7,000 photos. Among other things, the SuperCam has been tested, a special camera developed in France that can direct a laser beam at a rock up to seven meters away and analyze its composition.
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