The 2020 rover will carry critical experiments that will help determine whether humans can live sustainably on Mars, paving the way for human missions to Mars by the early to mid-2030s.

NASA will reveal the next Mars 2020 rover name on Thursday, ending their seven-month-long “Name the Rover” essay contest that 28,000 students took part in nationwide.

The Perseverance rover will explore Mars in ways that weren’t possible by previous rovers, using new instruments to search for signs of ancient life and test capabilities that could help humans ...

NASA has named its Mars 2020 rover, “Perseverance,” as it prepares for launch this summer. The name is a result of a nationwide contest, which accepted more than 28,000 essays from K-12 ...

When NASA’s Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet in February 2021, it will touch down in Jezero Crater, the site of a lake that existed 3.5 billion years ago. The next generation rover will ...

Mars 2020 also has a number of new experiments that are designed to help engineers develop technology for future robotic and human Mars missions. For example, the rover carries a device designed ...

Mars Rovers NASA's Perseverance rover hits the Mars rock gold mine: ... to human-devouring plants (in the universally panned 1959 movie "The Angry Red Planet").

Once humans go to the Moon in greater numbers, and on private missions, those early Apollo landing sites are going to become targets for souvenir-hunters. Apollo 11 - NASA, 1969.

Mars Rover Discovers Eerie Human Face Seemingly Carved Into A Rock. Story by Dave Basner • 8mo. F or three years, NASA has been learning more about our closest neighboring planet, ...

That’s “to remind us, whatever this rover is, it’s of human origin,” says Jennifer Trosper, an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Lab, or JPL, who has worked on all five NASA rovers. “It is ...

The rover will continue to characterize and study Mars’ geology and past climate, while paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and will also be the first mission to collect and ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has spent more than 10 years exploring the Red Planet. Now the mission has new software allowing the rover to explore Mars more efficiently.