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.

Here we see the Perseverance rover dangling from its descent ... from video footage that the descent stage captured during the landing sequence. That’s tantalizing, as it means we’ll ...

Perseverance will begin its primary mission of collecting and storing rock samples about two months after landing. It will search for ancient microbial life by drilling and extracting core samples.

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While Perseverance has climbed 20-degree inclines ... including the rover's landing site, the spot where it first found sedimentary rocks, the location of the first sample depot on another planet ...

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Adding to the excitement was a high-resolution image taken during the rover’s landing. While NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover sent back a step-motion movie of its descent, Perseverance’s cameras ...

Nasa's Perseverance rover is attempting to land ... For more on the Mars landing, listen to Science in Action on BBC World Service. Italian authorities say people have been injured after venturing ...

My memories of Perseverance’s traverses are a lot like memories of a hike. I can actually think of what Mars is like from the ...

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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 ...

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 ...