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image of reddish-brown martian dirt with some grayish rocks, taken from a height of about 30 feet.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter aces 55th Red Planet flight

By Mike Wall published

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has taken to the skies yet again, covering 866 feet (264 meters) of ground on its 55th Red Planet flight.

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a small robotic helicopter hovers in front of a reddish-brown mountain on mars

Watch Ingenuity Mars helicopter fly in amazing video from Perseverance rover

By Mike Wall published

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured a stunning video of the Ingenuity helicopter on Aug. 3, during the little chopper's 54th Red Planet flight.

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Graphic illustration showing the layers of Mars against the backdrop of space.

Mars: Everything you need to know about the Red Planet

By Charles Q. Choi last updated

Reference Mars, the fourth planet from the sun is famed for its rusty red appearance. Here we explore the Red Planet in more detail and see why scientists find it so intriguing.

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The new NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Lego Technic model reproduces the six-wheeled explorer and its flying companion now on the Red Planet.

New Lego Technic Perseverance Mars rover was a 'thrill' says JPL advisor

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

Step 337 in assembling Lego's NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Technic model is to you install your name — assuming you were one of the nearly 11 million people who signed up to fly on the real rover.

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animated selfie take by the Perseverance Mars rover with the Ingenuity helicopter.

Perseverance rover: Everything you need to know

By Nola Taylor Tillman, Mike Wall last updated

Reference NASA's Perseverance rover isn't just exploring the Red Planet. The life-hunting robot will also help a little bit of Mars make it to Earth a decade or so from now, if all goes according to plan.

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mars rover perseverance studies a rock with its robotic arm, with a rocky outcrop in the distance

Building blocks of Mars life? Perseverance rover digs up diverse set of organic molecules on the Red Planet

By Charles Q. Choi published

NASA's Perseverance rover has found an intriguing menagerie of organic molecules in a Martian crater, but their source remains unclear.

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a wheeled robot on Mars

Mars rover Perseverance sets new record for making oxygen on Red Planet

By Leonard David published

Earlier this month, the MOXIE oxygen-making experiment on the Perseverance Mars rover achieved a major milestone.

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large black rock with a hole in its center sitting on mars' reddish-brown surface

Mars donut! Perseverance rover spots holey Red Planet rock (photo)

By Mike Wall published

NASA's Perseverance rover has spied a big, donut-shaped rock on Mars. It might be a meteorite, scientists say.

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curiosity rover on mars next to a small reddish-brown hill

How do Mars rocks and riverbeds get their names? NASA explains (video)

By Robert Lea published

A new NASA video explains why and how the features studied by the Perseverance and Curiosity Mars rovers are named.

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The new Lego Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance will go on sale on Aug. 1. The 1,132-piece model reproduces the six-wheeled explorer and Ingenuity, its flying rotorcraft companion.

Lego to roll out Mars rover Perseverance as new Technic set on August 1

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

The next space-themed Lego set is actually two spacecraft in one, Technic-ally speaking. The Lego Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance set recreates the wheeled explorer and its Ingenuity helicopter.

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