Perseverance Mars Rover

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover secured to Atlas V rocket ahead of 30 July launch

The Atlas V will leave the Integration Facility a good two days before its scheduled launch on 30 July.

Perserverance will carry more than 10 million names to Mars when it launched this July

The rover is a robotic scientist will look for signs of past microbial life and collect samples for a future return to Earth.