When the Mars rover Perseverance landed on that red planet on February those monitoring its arrival endured ldquo seven minutes of terror rdquo As the spacecraft ended its -million-mile journey it went through a complex landing procedure it had to do on its own Signals from Mars to Earth take several minutes so NASA couldn rsquo t hear from Perseverance during the landing Not being in contact was frightening for the team who had put so much effort and resources into the mission Sometimes we may experience our own times of fear when we feel we rsquo re not hearing
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