
A tightly choreographed dance between NASA’s Deep Space Network and Mars orbiters will keep the agency’s Perseverance in touch with Earth during landing and beyond.

A tightly choreographed dance between NASA’s Deep Space Network and Mars orbiters will keep the agency’s Perseverance in touch with Earth during landing and beyond.
Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance’s Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she’s looking for....
What to expect when the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover arrives at the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. Read...
The Perseverance rover spent the first two Earth years of its mission on Mars driving and sampling...
Flight number: 36 Date of flight: NET Dec. 10 Flight duration: 60.82 seconds Horizontal flight distance: 361 feet (110...
The map could help the agency decide where the first astronauts to the Red Planet should land....
The mission’s first two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – could help scientists better understand the...