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Mars rover Perseverance spots Ingenuity helicopter resting on sand dune (photo)
By Mike Wall published
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped a photo recently of its robotic cousin Ingenuity as the tiny helicopter rested on a Red Planet sand dune.
Perseverance rover marks 1 Mars year on Red Planet
By Mike Wall published
NASA's Perseverance rover is wrapping up its prime mission after 687 Earth days on the Red Planet.
Perseverance Mars rover's sample cache now 40% complete
By Tereza Pultarova published
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has dropped its fourth rock sample tube at a location in Jezero Crater, meaning its first backup sample depot is now 40% complete.
Perseverance rover drops 2nd sample tube on Mars, its biggest early Christmas present yet for 2033
By Tariq Malik published
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully dropped its second rock sample tube on the Martian surface, its longest sample yet.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover sample tubes look like Star Wars lightsabers
By Elizabeth Howell published
The design of the sample return tubes carried by NASA's Perseverance rover looks suspiciously like a 'Star Wars' lightsaber, inspiring one NASA director to joke about using the Force on Mars.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover just dropped its 1st sample on the Martian surface
By Elizabeth Howell published
NASA's Perseverance rover collected this tube's sample from a Mars region rich in organics. Scientists soon will scrutinize tubes like this for signatures of life.
Ingenuity Mars helicopter tests new software on 37th Red Planet flight (video)
By Mike Wall published
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter flew for the 37th time on Saturday (Dec. 17), acing a hop designed in part to test the capabilities of its new software.
Perseverance Mars rover to start caching samples for future return to Earth
By Mike Wall published
NASA's Perseverance rover is set to cache its first Mars sample in the next few days, kicking off a roughly month-long process that will see the robot drop 10 tubes of Red Planet material.
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