NASA Perseverance rover flips into safe mode on way to Mars

After many months of work, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has finally launched for the Red Planet. The launch took place from the Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral on July 30 aboard the ULA’s Atlas V rocket. NASA has detailed this success, explaining that Perseverance was put into parking orbit…and soon after the rover put itself into safe …