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epa09022539 French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and his wife Brigitte Macron (R) attend a viewing meeting of the landing of the NASAâÄ™s Perseverance Mars rover on the planet Mars at the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES) in Paris, France, 18 February 2021. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The Perseverance rover carries the SuperCam instrument, built by a US-French team of several dozen engineers and scientists from CNES, CNRS and universities. EPA/CHRISTOPHE PETIT-TESSON / POOL