The rover will abrade a rock this week, allowing scientists and engineers to decide whether that target would withstand its powerful drill.
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Watch (and Hear) How NASA’s Perseverance Rover Took Its First Selfie
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The historic image of the rover beside the Mars Helicopter proved to be one of the most complex rover...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample
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The rock core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, and will be available for retrieval in...
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The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA’s Martian Explorers
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A tightly choreographed dance between NASA’s Deep Space Network and Mars orbiters will keep the agency’s Perseverance in touch...
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Perseverance Rover’s SuperCam Science Instrument Delivers First Results
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Data from the powerful science tool includes sounds of its laser zapping a rock in order to test what...
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Survives First Cold Martian Night on Its Own
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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on Mars as viewed by the Perseverance rover’s rear Hazard Camera on April...
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7 Things to Know About the NASA Rover About to Land on Mars
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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which has started its approach to the Red Planet, will help answer the next...
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Images From NASA’s Perseverance May Show Record of Wild Martian River
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Evidence left in rocks is leading scientists to rethink what watery environments looked like on ancient Mars....
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NASA’s InSight ‘Hears’ Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars
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The Mars lander’s seismometer has picked up vibrations from four separate impacts in the past two years. Read More