Data from the powerful science tool includes sounds of its laser zapping a rock in order to test what it’s made of.
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock
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Perseverance will obtain additional imagery of the sample tube before potentially completing the process of collecting its first scientifically-selected...
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Watch NASA Engineers Put a Mars Lander’s Legs to the Test
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Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on...
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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Captures a Mars Rock Feature in 3D
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The rotorcraft captures nuances of rocky outcrop during aerial reconnaissance. Read More
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Cracks in Ancient Martian Mud Surprise NASA’s Curiosity Rover Team
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A new paper suggests the same conditions that created the cracks could have been favorable to the...
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NASA’s First Weather Report From Jezero Crater on Mars
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Perseverance’s MEDA will help us understand how to prepare astronauts for a future on the Red Planet. Read More
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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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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Reroutes Away From ‘Gator-Back’ Rocks
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To avoid patches of knife-edged rocks, the mission has taken an alternative path up Mount Sharp. Read More
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Flight 50 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight: 50 Expected Flight date: 04/05/2023 Horizontal distance: 1,005.3 feet (306.4 meters) Flight time: 138.58 seconds Max...
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