Latinos Persevering

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Latinos Persevering

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Mar 19, 2024

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On today’s episode of Latino USA, we meet some of the Latinos and Latinas involved with the recent and historic mission to Mars. The Perseverance rover traveled almost 300 million miles to Mars and landed on the Red Planet on February 18, 2021, in hopes of finding traces of previous life on the planet.

This episode originally aired in May of 2021.

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Mar 19, 2024

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