The NASA Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples to Earth (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) The rover has journeyed across more than 20 miles, according to an interactive map that ...
To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already collected and cached a bevy of samples since it arrived on the planet in 2021. "The agency's Mars Sample Return Program has been a major ...
The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, with no ice covering the surface ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a sample from Mars that has textures “unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” Known ...