NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...
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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.
The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.
A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...
The study by scientists at Caltech discusses the discovery of ancient wave ripples on the Mars surface, first found by the Curiosity rover in 2022. Scientists say these ripples are "undulations in ...
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 ...
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April 19 ... NASA’s Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity rovers stopped working years ago. NASA's Opportunity rover's 2005 image of the remains of the heat shield ...
But so far this century, JPL has been on a roll — literally, with the Mars rovers Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity and Perseverance landing safely and performing brilliantly. Scientists in ...