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 ...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its 26th collected rock sample, named “Silver Mountain,” using its onboard Sample Caching System Camera, located inside the rover’s underbelly.

NASA Perseverance rover has just marked history by successfully collecting a peculiar rock sample from the Jezero Crater of ...

After 15 months of drilling carefully selected bits of the red planet, the robot is beginning the process of setting up a "sample depot" where the future sample return lander will be able to pick up ...

In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover extracted a rock core from the edge of Neretva Vallis, a river valley cut into the Martian surface by water rushing into the Jezero Crater billions of years ago ...

Perseverance poses for a selfie with Cheyava Falls, a leopard-spotted rock it discovered in 2024 on Mars that could hold evidence of ancient microbial life. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS A Mars ...

Several weeks ago, Perseverance failed to collect its sample after drilling into a rock, a mystery that took NASA a few days to solve. Now, the rover has executed a second sample collection, and this ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has just collected its 26th sample, named "Silver Mountain", and NASA has confirmed not only does it have curious textures "unlike anything we've seen before" but it's ...