And since it takes 11 minutes for a radio signal to get from Earth to Mars, the rover’s onboard ... storing rock samples about two months after landing. It will search for ancient microbial ...

This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb ... backed the launch and landing of this rover in four ...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter commanded our attention when it captured 'otherworldly' photos of a curious wreckage on the ...

A Chinese rover found evidence of ancient beaches on Mars, suggesting the planet once had vast oceans 4 billion years ago. The discovery of sloping sand layers beneath the surface provides new ...

But Perseverance is also equipped to gather and store samples, tasks it has been engaging in since its successful Mars landing in February 2021.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars was a huge milestone in the mission.

A team of Chinese and foreign scientists has discovered underground sedimentary layers on Mars that appear to have been ...

A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground ... in sedimentary rocks at the bottom of Gale Crater, the landing site for NASA's Curiosity rover, suggesting the ...

The findings offer the most direct subsurface evidence of an ancient ocean on the red planet. Although orbital images have identified ancient shorelines that suggest the northern lowlands of Mars may ...

Such as, say, Mars. So [Matthew Earl] sought to give Perseverance rover’s landing video some context by projecting onto orbital imagery from ESA’s Mars Express. The resulting video (embedded ...