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 ...

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

The Mars2020 Perseverance Rover took about 8 years to complete here on Earth. Built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in ...

"Our rover drivers have done an amazing job negotiating some of the toughest terrain we’ve encountered since landing,” Steven Lee, Perseverance deputy project manager, said in a statement.

(The rover found soon after its 2012 landing that they were.) Perseverance, which arrived at the Red Planet in 2021, is building on Curiosity's success by collecting rock cores that could be ...

Since landing on Mars in 2021, Perseverance has filled sample tubes with rocks and dirt. NASA's goal has been to retrieve at least some of them and get them to Earth in the 2030s. To do that ...

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.

When Perseverance landed on Mars on February 18 ... Jezero Crater it’s found a few bits of space litter from that landing, including on June 13, 2022 this piece of a thermal blanket from ...

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 ...