On Wednesday, Dec. 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring of the rock the science team nicknamed ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

Among the dozens of NASA missions active at any given time is Perseverance, the rover currently roaming Mars collecting whatever Martian rocks it can. In the two years its been on the planet, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close up of multi-colored rock against a background showing a reddish-orange dusty landscape littered with rocks. The lead ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2020, and has since been spending every Martian sol exploring the western end of Jezero Crater, imaging the Martian surface, ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie with some of the sample tubes it left on the Red Planet's surface using the camera at the end of its robotic arm. NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS NASA’s ...

The lead scientist for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material that has been stored in the rover's sample tubes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has been busy creating what the space agency recently said was “humanity’s first sample depot on another planet.” The depot, which is essentially a flat patch of land, ...

The Perseverance rover attempted to collect its first sample of Mars last week, but it seems the red planet wasn't ready to cooperate. The Perseverance rover attempted to collect its first sample of ...