NASA’s Perseverance rover cored and stored the first sample of the mission’s newest science campaign on Thursday, March 30. With each campaign, the team explores and studies a new area. […]
Jezero Crater
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Perseverance Starts Third Year Of Astrobiology Science At Jezero Crater
NASA’s Perseverance rover will celebrate its second anniversary on the surface of Mars Saturday, Feb. 18.
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Perseverance Rover To Begin Building Martian Sample Depot
In the coming days, NASA’s Perseverance rover is expected to begin building the first sample depot on another world. This will mark a crucial milestone in the NASA-ESA (European Space […]
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Searching For Biosignatures At The Wildcat Ridge Abrasion Patch On Mars
A video from NASA’s Perseverance rover shows increasingly close views of an abraded rock at “Wildcat Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater, an area scientists consider one of the best places […]
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Away Team Tools: Virtual Hiking Map for Jezero Crater – Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Site
Prospective Mars explorers can now go for a virtual hike around the landing site of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover with an interactive map loaded with orbital imagery, terrain data […]
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Perseverance Rover Conducts Astrobiology And Geology Exploration On Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to be a top prospect for finding signs […]
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Perseverance Rover Retrieves Key Rocky Clues To Mars’ Geologic And Water History
In its first year exploring Jezero Crater on Mars, the Perseverance rover collected rock samples that scientists anticipate will provide a long-awaited timeline for the planet’s geologic and water history. […]
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Perseverance Makes New Discoveries
Scientists got a surprise when NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover began examining rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater in spring of 2021: Because the crater held a lake billions of […]