In just five years, Perseverance has passed Opportunity’s 45 km record ...

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Sometime next week, NASA’s newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world. The automobile-sized rover, which landed on Mars in ...

Filled with rock, the sample tube will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that could be considered for a journey to Earth by the Mars Sample Return campaign. A titanium tube containing a rock ...

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When the Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, it became the fifth NASA rover to begin a traverse across the Martian landscape. It was targeting a corner of a lowland basin, ...