🚀 MARS 2020 LAUNCH DAY! 🌍➡️🔴 Today we throw it back to the moment NASA sent the Perseverance rover off to Mars on a powerful Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral! This video shows the raw ISO B-roll footage from NASA—pure launch beauty with no commentary. 😍🔥 The Mars 2020 mission is part of NASA’s big Moon to Mars plan, building the path for future human explorers. Perseverance’s job? Search for signs of ancient life, collect samples, and help prepare the way for us one day stepping on Mars.

As we approach the #NASA60th anniversary on October 1, let's look back at how it all began -- with the passage of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 and the absorbing of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics into what became NASA, which by 1958 had already begun sending pilots to the upper reaches of the atmosphere. Watch & learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/2mNbHvP. | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration