Since touching down in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover has already cached 6 samples that could one day be brought back to Earth. Astrobiologists hope they hold signs of past microbial life.

Six off-the-shelf cameras comprised the spacecraft's EDL Cam system (Entry, Descent and Landing). Together they provided a spectacular view of the Rover's arrival on the red planet.

China's space agency, fresh off a successful sample-return mission to the moon, says the ambitious Tianwen-1 rover mission it launched in July had reached the Red Planet.