This image from video made available by NASA shows the parachute deployed during the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it approaches the surface of the planet on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover that collected the more-than two-dozen samples is powering on at the top of the Jezero Crater where it landed in 2021. A collection of Martian rocks could reveal ...

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 ...

Ian Clark, a Perseverance parachute system engineer ... it was landing equipment used to help Ingenuity and the Perseverance Rover land on the surface of Mars in 2021. In the photos, you can ...

In a lot of ways, Perseverance’s sample handling system is the rover’s raison d’être, and it’s the subject of this deep dive. NASA has done its usual admirable job of communicating with ...

1. The balanced rock and the ‘snake head’ NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a ... [+] pair of cameras located high on the rover ...

But to really get inside the designer’s head, executing a physical model, like this quarter-scale RC-controlled Perseverance rover, is a great way to go. If you’re looking for cutting-edge ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has collected a unique rock sample named 'Silver Mountain' from Mars' Jezero Crater, marking a significant milestone. This sample is sealed in a titanium tube for return ...