NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence. Executed on Dec. 8 and 10, and led by the agency’s Jet […]
Perseverance Rover
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Direct Detection Of Hydrogen Reveals A New Macroscopic Crustal Water Reservoir On Early Mars
The next great leap in Martian exploration will be the return of samples to Earth. To ensure the maximum scientific return from studying these samples, the development and utilisation of […]
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NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center For Future Missions
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has inaugurated its Rover Operations Center (ROC), a center of excellence for current and future surface missions to the Moon and Mars. During […]
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Recent Production Rates Of Cosmogenic Nuclides In The Igneous Rocks of Jezero Crater Floor, Mars
The Perseverance rover has collected rock samples from the floor of Jezero crater, Mars, set to be returned to Earth through the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. These surface rocks […]
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Perseverance Can Continue To Operate On Mars Until At Least 2031
The rover has been acing a long-term series of durability tests, making the most of its enhanced navigation capabilities, and ferreting out new findings about Mars’ geologic past.
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Perseverance Looks Down At Itself
This is a montage of three images taken by Mars Perseverance on Sol 1697 Nov. 28, 2025 by the WATSON Camera.
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Electric Sparks Detected By Perseverance In Mars Dust Devils And Storms
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the sounds of electrical discharges —sparks — and mini-sonic booms in dust devils on Mars. Long theorized, the phenomenon has now been confirmed through […]
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NASA Tests Future Mars Droids In Death Valley
Next-generation drone flight software is just one of 25 technologies for the Red Planet that the space agency funded for development this year.
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Findings Suggest The Mars Was Warmer And Wetter Millions Of Years Ago
Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the small planet may have once supported wet oases […]
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Perseverance Encounters A Possible Meteorite On Mars
During the rover’s recent investigation of the bedrock at “Vernodden,” Perseverance encountered an unusually shaped rock about 80 centimeters across (about 31 inches) called “Phippsaksla.”