Scientists expect the new area of interest on the lower slope of Jezero Crater’s rim to offer up some of the oldest rocks on the Red Planet.

Zurbuchen also shared that despite the fact that many of those on Perseverance’s team couldn’t be on site at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory due to Covid social-distancing protocols ...

Along for the ride with Perseverance is an experiment to fly a helicopter, called Ingenuity, on another planet for the first time. During the landing coverage, NASA’s mission control team will ...

Perseverance aims to collect about 40 samples of Martian rock and soil, which it will save so that a future NASA mission can bring them back to Earth. At NASA, the team of scientists and engineers ...

who is playing a vital role in NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Mission,” President Nez said. “We are excited for the NASA team and for Aaron and we see him as being a great role model who will ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is yet to find the signs ... the rocket-powered jetpack that set me down on landing day back in 2021," the team back on Earth tweeted Wednesday. The rover originally ...

NASA's Perseverance rover recently paused ... layered bedrock. Already, the Perseverance team operating the rover from southern California have found signs of unusual geology.

NASA’s Perseverance rover ... our rover is in excellent condition, and the team is raring to see what’s on the roof of this place.” Perseverance is likely to encounter some of the steepest ...

“These spots are a big surprise,” said David Flannery, member of the NASA Perseverance science team and an astrobiologist at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, in a statement.

This exciting discovery opens up new possibilities for auroral research and confirms that auroras could be visible to future ...