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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Perseverance rover spies signs of ancient raging rivers on Mars
By Mike Wall published
NASA's Perseverance rover has found evidence that a deep and fast-moving river once coursed through Mars' Jezero Crater, shaking up current ideas of past Red Planet water flow.
Perseverance Mars rover snaps amazing shot of dusty Ingenuity helicopter (photo)
By Samantha Mathewson published
NASA's Perseverance rover just snapped an up-close view of its Mars companion Ingenuity, revealing the robotic helicopter's dusty blades.
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