The rover is set to tackle Mars' ancient hydrothermal sites, searching for clues to the planet's watery past and potential ancient life.
Additional space in the tubes containing Martian rock could reveal insights into the gases that make up the Red Planet's atmosphere.
We see what you did there, Percy, and we appreciate your filthy message from afar.
Engineers are trying to resolve an issue with one of the rover's instruments, which lets Perseverance shoot lasers at rocks.
Ingenuity will never fly again, forever grounded on the Martian dunes, where it looks incredibly lonely.
The first robot landed on Mars in 1997, and those little guys have left a legacy of hidden messages, lucky pennies, and supposed last words.
RIP, Ingenuity, the first craft to fly on another planet.
An impressive trek through a dense boulder field is the latest in a growing list of accomplishments for the six-wheeled rover.
The six-wheeled Perseverance explorer just packed its 20th sample from the Red Planet, which will hopefully be returned to Earth via a future mission.
Mars may have witnessed a major shift in climate thousands of years ago, marking the end of the planet’s most recent ice age.
A hilly terrain on Mars stood between Ingenuity and Perseverance, interrupting their communication for over 60 days.
The intrepid rover found a donut-shaped rock that may be a meteorite which landed on Mars.
Dubbed Light Bender, the system will employ a series of mirrors to reflect sunlight onto solar panels stationed in dark lunar environments.
Large features across Mars' terrain get official names, while mission teams get to choose silly nicknames for rocks, cliffs, and meteorites.
Mission controllers spent nearly a full week in the attempt to regain contact with the rotorcraft, the result of a challenging Martian landscape.
The Zhurong rover was scheduled to wake up from its hibernation in December, but has remained idle on the same Martian spot for nearly a year.
The rover’s mission has picked up pace 12 years on, thanks to NASA's monumental update.
The space agency's proposed longterm strategy for exploring the Red Planet involves lower-cost missions and paving the way for humans to land on Mars.
China's inaugural Mars mission was scheduled to resume after a precautionary winter pause, but controllers can't seem to make contact with the rover or orbiter.
A documentary streaming on Amazon Prime Video tells the very human story of two robots on Mars.
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