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

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 ...

For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping up intriguing rock samples. Some of those samples have been stashed away in cylindrical tubes on the ...

For three years, NASA has been learning more about our closest neighboring planet, Mars, with the Perseverance rover. The ...

Some social media users were convinced it was a UFO, and others believed it ... Meanwhile on Mars, Nasa’s Perseverance rover spotted floating blue orbs. It send back an image of rocks and ...

On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars and began collecting soil, rock, and atmospheric samples in 30 sterile, cigar-sized, titanium tubes. Now, four years later, the entire ...

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April 19, 2022. Remember the nail-biting “seven minutes of terror” video in 2021 of NASA’s Perseverance rover parachuting onto Mars on a tether from its descent ...

To that end, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has already collected and cached a bevy of samples since it arrived on the planet in 2021. "The agency's Mars Sample Return Program has been a major ...

With the roughly 20-day wide launch window for the Mars 2020 mission ... earlier this year, the rover it’s delivering to the Martian surface, since dubbed Perseverance, will be among the most ...

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 ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports thick aluminum ones covered in cleats to enhance its traction and ...

Nelson said both options involve cleaning Martian dust from the tubes on the planet surface instead of on the return vehicle, and using one of the spare arms on the Mars Perseverance rover to ...