Doncaster's Yungblud's cover of a David Bowie track was played as the Perseverance Rover landed on Mars

The world was watching as the Perseverance Rover landed on Mars following a seven month journey from Earth and the song that marked the moment in history was David Bowie’s track ‘Life on Mars’ covered by Doncaster’s Yungblud.

Speaking to the BBC the 23-year-old said: “I'm from Doncaster, and I went to Mars last night.

"It's one thing being asked to cover one of your idol's most influential songs - on Earth. But to do it in partnership with a landing on a different planet is just mad."

NASA's YouTube channel live-streamed the journey to the planet, and once the robot successfully landed, the song began to play.

Yungblud said it's a "real privilege" to be part of something "so much bigger than the world.”

The American space agency has successfully landed its one tonne robot Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet's equator called Jezero on Thursday, February 18.

The six-wheeled vehicle will now spend at least the next two years drilling into the local rocks, looking for evidence of past life

Jezero is thought to have held a giant lake billions of years ago. And where there's been water, there's the possibility there might also have been life.

Perseverance will sample the base of the delta and then move towards the rim of the crater. It is at the rim that satellites have detected carbonate rocks, which on Earth are particularly good at trapping biological activity.

Being involved in the Mars journey was particularly special for Yungblud, who says he has always been interested in space.

He added: "To be honest, all my life I have felt a bit like an alien. Not a lot of people got me, and it got me down when I was younger.

"I found Bowie and I found Lady Gaga, and I found Oasis. I found these world-builders, and they literally helped me through. I felt like I belonged on a different planet."