Keeping with the tradition of using virtues as names, the Mars 2020 rover will henceforth be known as “Perseverance.” This particular virtue was suggested by Alexander Mather, a middle ...

NASA is set to begin another road trip on Mars, and on Thursday it announced the name of the rover that's scheduled to begin that journey to the Red Planet as soon as July: Perseverance.. For ...

After nine years in development, the Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, was entering its final four months when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. By then, the separate spacecraft sections had arrived at ...

07/02/2020 July 2, 2020. NASA's new rover will prepare the American space agency for human exploration of Mars. Here's an overview of the facts.

NASA's Mars 2020 rover is on its way, despite the difficulties of coordinating the launch in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's to a safe journey and a landing with minimal lithobraking.

“When word went out during the naming event here at JPL, I took a moment to look around the auditorium,” said John McNamee, project manager of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission at JPL.

NASA has released a list of nine finalists for their Mars 2020 rover naming contest. Over 28,000 names were submitted by elementary, middle school, and high school students from around the world.

Seen from below, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover bears a plaque to the right of its middle wheel. Featuring a snake-entwined rod to symbolize healing and medicine, it commemorates the impact ...

The 1-ton, six-wheeled rover is due to land next February inside Mars’ 28-mile-wide Jezero Crater, at the site of an ancient river delta that now appears bone-dry.The top three tasks on the $2.4 ...

An example is the Sample Fetch Rover, proposed to be developed by the European Space Association and launched in late 2020s, whose main task will be to pick up samples dug up by the Mars 2020 ...

When it departs for Mars, NASA's Mars 2020 rover won't only be armed with an array of scientific instruments -- it will also be toting a high-powered laser. Skip to main content.