On February 18, 2021, all eyes were on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover entered the Martian atmosphere at nearly 12,000 miles per hour. All the scientists could do was wait as years of work, billions of dollars, and the hopes of thousands of scientists hung in the balance for 7 minutes of autonomous decisions. After a descent known as the “seven minutes of terror,” the rover landed safely in Jezero Crater (an impact crater on Mars). Sitting inside mission control was a Colombi

Written By: Daphne Fauber (Guest Writer) Synphane Gibbs, a 2020 graduate in Biology from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical...