NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot – Captures Amazing Variety of Martian Geology
Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Martian Regolith Samples
In the image above, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is collecting two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – with a regolith sampling bit…
Scientists Obtain First-Ever Sound Recording of Dust Devils on Mars
Scientists have made history by recording the first audio of an extraterrestrial whirlwind on Mars, thanks to the microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover. The study,…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Martian Surface for Possible Return to Earth
The sample tube, which is filled with rock, will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that the Mars Sample Return campaign could…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover To Begin Building First Sample Depot on Another World
The ten sample tubes being dropped on Mars’ surface contain an astounding variety of the planet’s geology, which will one day be analyzed on Earth….
First Martian Regolith Samples: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gets the Dirt on Mars
Mars 2020 Perseverance mission’s first two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – could help scientists better understand the Red Planet and engineers…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Discovers Possible Organic Compounds in Mars Crater Rocks
Rock samples from the Jezero crater analyzed by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover show evidence of liquid water and signatures that could be organic compounds. Analyses…
Search for Ancient Life: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Investigates Intriguing Martian Bedrock
Tantalizing opportunities for the six-wheeler’s science team while exploring a sediment-rich location in a Mars delta. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has begun exploring a region…
Life on Mars? Latest Intriguing Organic Findings by NASA’s Perseverance Rover
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain The most recent discoveries provide greater detail on a region of the Red Planet that has a…
MOXIE Experiment Successfully Making Oxygen on Mars
Day and night, and across seasons, the instrument reliably generates breathable oxygen from the Red Planet’s thin atmosphere. Nearly 100 million miles from Earth, on…
Martian Surprise: NASA’s Perseverance Makes New Discoveries in Mars’ Jezero Crater
The Mars rover found that Jezero Crater’s floor is made up of volcanic rocks that have interacted with water. NASA scientists got a big surprise…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Laser Marking on Mars
If your name begins with “L” you will especially enjoy this story about the first letter to be laser engraved on Mars. Every once in…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Takes First Core From the Jezero Delta
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover has taken its first sample from the Jezero delta! Since arriving at the delta, “Percy” has been observing and abrading different…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Searching for Sand Transport
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover is currently stopped for sampling at Skinner Ridge rock. An important aspect of Perseverance’s mission is sampling activities, and therefore the…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scouts Mars Sample Return Campaign Landing Sites
The six-wheeled roving explorer has inspected a stretch of the Red Planet to see if it is flat enough for NASA’s next Mars lander. While…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Sometimes Things Get Complicated
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has a big job to do while roving across Jezero and exploring the Delta Front, which is campaign #2 of the…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover’s Exploration of Hogwallow Flats – “The Bacon Strip”
Fine-Grained Rocks at Hogwallow Flats NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover’s exploration of the Hawksbill Gap area of the Jezero Delta continues! Over the last few weeks,…
Martian Dust Devils: NASA’s Perseverance Studies the Wild Winds of Jezero Crater
The Mars rover’s weather sensors witnessed daily whirlwinds and more while studying the Red Planet. During its first couple of hundred days in Jezero Crater,…
