Perseverance rover
Mars Rovers Will Need to Dig Deeper If They Want to Find Evidence of Life
The search for life—even ancient life—on Mars is trickier than we thought. In a recent study published in the journal…
Dust Devils and Strong Winds Produce the Constant Haze on Mars
Dust is an everyday feature on Mars and wreaks havoc on various pieces of equipment humans decide to send to…
A Perfectly Balanced Rock Seen by Perseverance
The Perseverance rover has begun exploring a region that looks a little like Monument Valley in Arizona and Utah in…
Perseverance Has Been Carrying a Rock in its Wheel for Over 100 Days
Why does a Mars rover have a rock in one of its wheels? Maybe it's because a rover doesn’t have…
Perseverance is Seeing A LOT of Dust Devils
While the Mars InSight lander is still waiting for a passing dust devil to clean off its solar panels, it…
Martian Dust is Starting to Darken Ingenuity’s Solar Panels
Like every solar-panel-powered vehicle on Mars, maintaining electrical power always becomes an issue at some point in the mission. Last…
Ingenuity is now Scouting Ahead of Perseverance, Helping it Navigate Difficult Terrain
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is providing scientists a look at what is on the road ahead for the Perseverance rover.…
Amazing! Ingenuity Helicopter Flies to the Perseverance Backshell and Parachute to See Them Close Up
You may recall we reported earlier this month that the Perseverance rover finally spotted its parachute and backshell off in…
Perseverance Begins the Next Phase of its Mission, Studying an Ancient River Bed on Mars
On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance (Percy) Rover successfully landed in the dried-up lakebed known as Jezero Crater on Mars,…
Wow! Perseverance Sees a Solar Eclipse on Mars
Imagine standing on Mars, and seeing this with your own eyes. (more…)