NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is negotiating ... including the rover's landing site, the spot where it first found sedimentary rocks, the location of the first sample depot on another planet ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of "leopard spots" on a rock nicknamed "Cheyava Falls" on July 18, 2024—sol 1212. or the 1,212th Martian day of the mission.

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

Perseverance’s parachute and backshell ... you’ll discover that the red planet is covered in remnant-strewn landing sites. Some have been pinpointed and examined from orbit while others ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

Stitched together from 44 frames, the mosaic includes not only the rover's Feb. 18, 2021 landing site, but many other landmark locations that have come to define the Perseverance mission.

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

The data was used to help find places of scientific interest that the Perseverance rover could then explore, and also to find safe routes for the rover to make it to those sites. But on January 6 ...

“We are exploring two new landing options,” said ... and crash-landed away from the site. In 2021, the same design was used to land Perseverance, and the team was actually able to capture ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

It wasn’t, of course, anything of the sort—merely a crevice resulting from natural erosion—but in the wake of that image both of NASA’s rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, have been ...