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NASA’s Perseverance rover faced a challenging Mars rock named “Kenmore,” revealing valuable insights into Martian geology.
There appears to be a volcano near Jezero crater on Mars and the Perseverance rover might already have samples from it that ...
The Perseverance rover finds a mysterious black rock on Mars, “Skull Hill,” which intrigues scientists because of its ...
NASA was to supply some critical technologies for the mission, which Europe may not be able to readily replace.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover ground down a portion of a rock surface, blew away the resulting debris, and then went to work ...
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China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...
In addition to drilling rock core samples, the science team has been grinding its way into rocks to make sense of the ...
China aims to launch the Tianwen-3 Mars mission by 2028, with sample return targeted for 2031, according to chief scientist ...
NASA is teaming up with the European Space Agency to do just that. The bold plan calls for a rover and return rocket to launch to Mars in 2026, to retrieve Perseverance’s stash of samples.
NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to ...
The rover has been collecting samples that were intended to be returned to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return mission in the 2030s, although that is now threatened by the Trump administration ...