NASA's Perseverance rover has finished an epic climb on Mars. The Perseverance rover crested the rim of the Red Planet's Jezero Crater this week, wrapping up a 3.5-month-long trek during which it ...

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

This is particularly exciting as it opens up new avenues for understanding the potential for habitability on Mars. Overall, the findings from Jezero Crater indicate a rich geological history ...

After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could ... the floor of Jezero crater, an ancient, dried-up lakebed once fed ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned two new strategies to bring crucial samples from Mars to ...

The study of Mars geology and hydrology is crucial for ... the history of ground ice at various landing sites, including Jezero Crater and Utopia Planitia. Researchers modeled the stability ...

That means wind erosion likely scoured sedimentary material out of the crater well after the lake dried up ... Mars meteorites that correspond to the time when lava hardened on the floor of Jezero ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is busily wheeling about within the ins and outs of Jezero Crater, biting into and snatching primo chunks of Mars for eventual pick-up by a future MSR mission.

Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover that collected the more-than two-dozen samples is powering on at the top of the Jezero ... up close with state-of-the-art equipment could unveil. And while Mars ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples ... The bottom of the Jezero Crater – believed to have formed 3.9 billion ...