Perseverance: NASA to send huge robot rover to Mars

The weather in Florida is set fair for the launch of the American space agency's (Nasa) big new Mars rover.

The one-tonne Perseverance robot is heading to the Red Planet to search for life and to begin the process of returning rocks to Earth for analysis.

An Atlas rocket will send the vehicle on its way from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, according to BBC News.

It'll be the third mission despatched to Mars this month, after launches by the UAE and China.