A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...
NASA's Perseverance rover is scaling the western rim of Mars' Jezero Crater, facing its toughest challenge yet. The rover's ...
as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study them in state-of-the-art facilities on Earth. NASA/JPL ...
NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...
The milestone came at the same time as another NASA vehicle, its small Ingenuity helicopter that hitched a ride to Mars with Perseverance, was potentially given a new purpose following its final ...
return pieces of Mars to Earth so scientists can study the Red Planet up close. To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already collected and cached a bevy of samples since it arrived ...
Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover that collected ... what studying rocks up close with state-of-the-art equipment could unveil. And while Mars rocks do occasionally come to Earth as meteorites ...