How two new technologies will help Perseverance, NASA’s most sophisticated rover yet, touch down onto the surface of Mars this month.
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NASA to Host Briefing to Preview First Mars Helicopter Flights
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Members of the projects will lay out the steps necessary before the helicopter attempts its historic test flights. Read...
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NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red Planet
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The agency’s newest rover captured first-of-its kind footage of its Feb. 18 touchdown and has recorded audio of Martian...
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What Sounds Captured by NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reveal About Mars
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A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds that the speed of sound is slower on...
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Searching for Life in NASA’s Perseverance Mars Samples
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When the agency’s newest rover mission searches for fossilized microscopic life on the Red Planet, how will scientists know...
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Adds New Stops to Its Virtual Tour
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Now you can see the Mars Yard up close, roam the world-class Microdevices Lab, visit the shop where spacecraft...
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NASA InSight’s ‘Mole’ Is Out of Sight
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Now that the heat probe is just below the Martian surface, InSight’s arm will scoop some additional soil on...
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Study Looks More Closely at Mars’ Underground Water Signals
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A new paper finds more radar signals suggesting the presence of subsurface ‘lakes,’ but many are in areas too...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Video of Solar Eclipse on Mars
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The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the Red Planet’s two moons, to study how its orbit...