NASA's Perseverance rover hits the halfway mark of its 314 million mile journey to Mars - Daily Mail

NASA announced its Perseverance rover is halfway through its journey to Mars.

Julie Kangas, a navigator working on the Perseverance rover mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said: 'While I don't think there will be cake, especially since most of us are working from home, it's still a pretty neat milestone.'.

NASA announced its Perseverance rover is halfway through its journey to Mars.

Perseverance's path to Mars follows a curved trajectory, as the trip from Earth to the planet is not an arrow-straight path that is due to the sun's gravitational influence.

'Although we're halfway into the distance we need to travel to Mars, the rover is not halfway between the two worlds,' Kangas explained.

'In straight-line distance, Earth is 26.6 million miles behind Perseverance and Mars is 17.9 million miles in front.'.

Perseverance's path to Mars follows a curved trajectory, as the trip from Earth to the planet is not an arrow-straight path that is due to the sun's gravitational influence.

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