"There are some instruments that just can't be miniaturized and sent to Mars." NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

Related: NASA's Perseverance rover begins ambitious ascent ... in order to glean information about a molecule's chemical structure. "There are patterns of peaks in a Raman spectrum, and you ...

Nasa's Perseverance rover is attempting to land on Mars on 18 February 2021. Katie Stack Morgan, the mission's deputy project scientist, explains how the spacecraft will navigate hazards in Jezero ...

A new view of Mars, compliments of NASA/JPL's Perseverance rover. This photo was taken on Oct. 22. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech It wasn't a surprise when the Perseverance rover on Mars lost contact ...

The NASA Perseverance rover has been gathering rocks ... enough to burn up a spacecraft that isn’t tucked within an outer structure sporting a protective heat shield. But the red planet ...

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered a rock sample with never-before-seen textures. Dubbed “Silver Mountain,” it has been sealed for further analysis in labs on Earth, holding secrets of ...

It wasn’t, of course, anything of the sort—merely a crevice resulting from natural erosion—but in the wake of that image both of NASA’s rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, have been ...

After departing Mount Washburn, NASA’s Perseverance Rover has reached Bright Angel ... but it played a significant role in shaping its landscape and structure. Now, all the theories about Mars holding ...