NASA launches a mission to search for extraterrestrial life on Mars NASA launched the Mars 2020 mission with the new "Perseverance" rover spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA), which is heading to Mars in search of extraterrestrial life remnants and as "one of the greatest" challenges of agency ". "This is the first time in history that we are going to Mars on an explicit mission to find life on another world," said Jim Bridenstine, administrator of the space agency. "Can we find it? We don't know if there was life there, but we do know that Mars was habitable at some point in its history." The launch was completed successfully at 7:50 a.m. local time (1:50 p.m. in the Basque Country). The rover is docked with the Atlas V rocket on launch pad 41 at Kennedy Space Center and has to travel more than 500 million kilometers on February 18 to land on the red planet. NASA launched the Mars 2020 mission with the new "Perseverance...