WATCH: The moment NASA Mars Rover Perseverance touches down

The tense final seconds of Perseverance's approach to Mars' surface - and the joyous scenes after its successful touch down were confirmed - were captured live from Nasa's mission control centre in California in the video below. The six-wheeled vehicle will now begin two years of drilling into the area's rocks, looking for evidence of past Martian life. Jezero is believed to have been home to a giant lake over billions of years ago, with scientists theorising that the presence of water increases the likelihood that life once thrived there. Perseverance plans to investigate a large delta feature within Jezero. The craft's signal indicates it landed around 2km to the south east of it.