Episode description

Blast off with 6-year-old host Zain on an exciting adventure to explore Mars and NASA's Perseverance Rover! Learn how this advanced rover is searching for signs of ancient Martian microfossils and past life on the Red Planet. Discover Perseverance's cool instruments, plans to cache Mars samples, and how YOU can help analyze the images it sends back! Zain explains how kids can join the mission and be part of this historic robotic expedition! Follow along with Perseverance's two-year journey roving around Jezero Crater. See incredible photos beamed back from Mars and help scan for evidence of alien bacteria that may have lived billions of years ago! Join Zain and unlock the mysteries of Mars today!

For more on Perseverance, visit the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseverance_(rover)

Mars, NASA, rover, Perseverance, Jezero Crater, Mars mission, kids podcast, STEM, science podcast, Mars exploration, astrobiology, fossils, Mars samples, Mars 2020, robotic space exploration, alien life, are we alone in the universe, astronomy podcast