For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2024, the 1,354th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

For some background, Perseverance made the find using an ... ranging from neon lights to fire flies. But onboard the Mars rover, SHERLOC takes advantage of this phenomenon to help identify the ...

(CNN) — After a steep monthslong trek, the Perseverance rover has reached the top of Jezero Crater on Mars. The site is a region unlike anything Perseverance has encountered during its 3 ½-year ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its own ... The Lunar Module "Eagle" is in the far right background. Artist NASA. (Photo by Heritage Space/Heritage Images via Getty Images ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life. When you purchase through ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

The Mars Sample Return project intends to bring Mars samples to Earth. The Perseverance rover has been gathering rocks and soil since 2021. These samples are stored in special canisters on Mars.

With the roughly 20-day wide launch window for the Mars 2020 mission ... earlier this year, the rover it’s delivering to the Martian surface, since dubbed Perseverance, will be among the most ...

To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already collected and cached a bevy of samples since it arrived on the planet in 2021. "The agency's Mars Sample Return Program has been a major ...