On the way to Mars!

The Perseverance rover was successfully launched this morning and is in its transfer orbit to Mars!

I missed the actual launch because I couldn't haul myself out of bed, but did get to see the separation (I wonder what NASA used for a camera satellite...a cubesat? It's not on the mission page).

Perseverance will be NASA's first sample return mission and the mission also carries the helicopter Ingenuity.

Oh, and look for its twitter account. NASA is being cute again ;).