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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of the Curiosity rover driving through the Gale Crater. The spacecraft ...
A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red ...
Curiosity celebrates a big win with the discovery of siderite, offering clues to Mars' ancient carbon cycle. Despite a slip ...
NASA scientists are storing some of these rocks for a future mission to bring samples back to Earth. As we prepare to one day send humans to Mars, these discoveries are helping shape our understanding ...
A new NASA study is putting future astronaut gear to the test—right on the Martian surface—with the help of the Perseverance rover. At left is NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, with a circle indicating ...
And that’s what Perseverance is looking for—signs that ancient life may have once existed, and an understanding of what happened to Mars and why. That’s why the rover is collecting rocks and ...
In several of them, I've featured images of other planets in the Solar System. Perseverance has a unique feature: it's the first rover to land on Mars equipped with microphones, so it can not only ...
Since the six-wheeled rover began exploring the rim in January, Perseverance has collected ... formed at least 3.9 billion years ago during Mars’ earliest geologic period, and may have been ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has captured unexpected footage of ... “These mini-twisters wander the surface of Mars, picking up dust as they go and lowering the visibility in their immediate ...
This mosaic showing the Martian surface outside of Jezero Crater was taken by NASA’s Perseverance ... rover cored a sample dubbed “Silver Mountain” from a rock likely formed during Mars ...
You wanna drive a Mars rover? Well sorry, but you can't. You could, however, buy and drive a li'l four-wheel-drive rover that can be controlled from anywhere in the world via 4G cellular networks.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover spotted a large dust devil (on the right) consuming a smaller, fainter twister (on the left in the foreground). NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / CNRS / INTA-CSIC ...