If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After several months of traveling through space, NASA’s Perseverance rover and other ...

when we were debating the merits of landing Perseverance in Jezero versus sites outside the crater. At the time, this area seemed just out of reach for a Jezero-focused mission, so I'm thrilled ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a Mars sample with never-before-seen textures, offering new clues about the Red Planet’s history and potential for life ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

Perseverance and Curiosity (rovers) on Mars. The other is to leverage options from industry.” The first option will rely on the sky crane method, used for the entry descent and landing of the ...

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward ... gas and loose surface material that were collected by NASA's Perseverance rover and deliver them back to Earth.

Either options has to land on Mars, collect 30 samples that have been collected since 2021 by Perseverance ... back toward Earth with either a direct landing, or parking in the space between ...

Since 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy collecting ... NASA will now explore two new landing strategies for retrieving the rock samples before deciding on which one to pursue in ...

which is the same method that used a hovering rocket to lower NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers via cable onto the Martian surface. The second option would include a landing system ...