NASA's Perseverance rover is on track to collect its first-ever Mars sample in the next few days. Perseverance recently abraded away the top 0.4 inches (1 centimeter) of a Red Planet rock dubbed ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover prepares for new rock sample collection at Lac de Charmes, following Margin Unit studies and continued mobility testing, as part of the Mars 2020 mission.

NASA’s Perseverance rover will move to a different spot on the Martian surface for its next attempt to collect a sample of surface material after a first try Aug. 5-6 failed. Perseverance will ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent its two years on Mars imaging the planet’s surface and collecting rock samples that will, should all go well, be brought to Earth in the early 2030s. The rover ...

After initially failing to capture a rock sample, NASA has confirmed that Perseverance succeeded in its second attempt. The space agency has verified that a pencil-width core of rust-colored rock is ...

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, ...

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 ...

On February 18, 2021, Mars 2020 landed at Jezero Crater on Mars. The mission contained a rover named Perseverance and a helicopter named Ingenuity. The main objectives of the Perseverance rover are to ...

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 ...

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 ...