"One of the biggest surprises for the rover team was the presence ... To obtain the images of the rock, Perseverance made an abrasion patch in a rock outcrop known as "Wallace Butte." ...

The abrasion patch measured five centimeters (roughly ... creating a green hue in the rock. Related: Perseverance rover gets ...

In one of its latest activities, Perseverance captured a detailed nighttime mosaic image of an abrasion patch on a rock formation ... the Perseverance team hopes the rover will encounter similar ...

The Perseverance rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet.

For nearly four years, NASA's Perseverance rover has journeyed across an unexplored patch of land on Mars—once home to an ancient river delta—and collected a slew of rock samples sealed inside ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life. When you purchase through ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has finally summitted the steep Martian crater where it landed more than three years ago to begin the next leg of its journey exploring the Red Planet. The arduous climb ...

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 ...

In a lot of ways, Perseverance’s sample handling system is the rover’s raison d’être, and it’s the subject of this deep dive. NASA has done its usual admirable job of communicating with ...