The spacecraft successfully cleared some dust off its solar panels, helping to raise its energy and delay when it will need to switch off its science instruments.
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The Race Is On
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The Perseverance rover spent the first two Earth years of its mission on Mars driving and sampling...
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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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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 Mars Helicopter Reveals Intriguing Terrain for Rover Team
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Ingenuity’s ninth flight provided imagery that will help the Perseverance rover team develop its science plan going forward. Read...
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NASA’s InSight Still Hunting Marsquakes as Power Levels Diminish
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Dusty solar panels and darker skies are expected to bring the Mars lander mission to a close around the...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Mars Surface
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Filled with rock, the sample tube will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that could be...
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NASA’s Curiosity Finds Surprise Clues to Mars’ Watery Past
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Among other discoveries made by the rover, rippled rock textures suggest lakes existed in a region of...
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NASA Retires Mineral Mapping Instrument on Mars Orbiter
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One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of minerals on...