Watch below as the Perseverance rover and its Ingenuity helicopter make their way to Mars.

The Mars 2020 technologies launched this morning, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 7:50 a.m. ET.

NASA pros offered their expertise throughout the day.

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