What Sounds Captured by NASA's Perseverance Rover Reveal About Mars
A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds that the speed of sound is slower on the Red Planet than on Earth and that, mostly, a deep sil…
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NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter and Asteroid-Monitoring System Honored
The team behind the agency's history-making rotorcraft soars, picking up high-profile awards alongside a new-and-improved system to assess asteroid or…
NASA's Perseverance Rover Hightails It to Martian Delta
The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling locat…
NASA Extends Ingenuity Helicopter Mission
With its recent 21st flight complete, the Red Planet rotorcraft is on its way to setting more records during its second year of operations.
NASA's Angie Jackman Works to Develop Rocket That Will Bring Mars Samples to Earth
Meet the project manager of the first rocket to launch from the surface of another planet, the Mars Ascent Vehicle.
NASA's Perseverance Celebrates First Year on Mars by Learning to Run
The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it reaches the end of the first of several planned science cam…
Students With Perseverance Receive Messages From Mars, Courtesy of NASA
The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency’s “You’ve Got Perseverance!” campaign was honored with a message from the Red Planet and a cha…
Testing Rocks on Earth to Help NASA's Perseverance Work on Mars
Using carefully selected terrestrial rocks, engineers try to figure out how to work with crumbly rocks like the one the rover encountered on its first…
One Year on Mars: Celebrate with the Perseverance Team
Join the celebration as the Mars 2020 mission team shares their stories marking the one-year anniversary of Perseverance’s dramatic landing with eve…
NASA Selects Developer for Rocket to Retrieve First Samples From Mars
The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round trip to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program.