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 ...

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 ...

There appears to be a volcano near Jezero crater on Mars and the Perseverance rover might already have samples from it that ...

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 ...

This illustration shows NASA’s Perseverance rover casting off its spacecraft’s cruise stage, minutes before entering the Martian atmosphere, Feb. 18, 2021. "What an amazing team, the work ...

Once NASA's Perseverance rover lands on the Red Planet today (Feb. 18), its mission team will return to a time-honored tradition of planetary exploration — living on "Mars time." Controllers at ...

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

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 ...

“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.

A vein-filled rock is catching the eye of the science team of NASA’s Perseverance rover. Nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” by the team, the arrowhead-shaped rock contains fascinating traits that may ...

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 ...