The Perseverance rover finds a mysterious black rock on Mars, “Skull Hill,” which intrigues scientists because of its ...

As per a mission update from Lauren Edgar, planetary geologist at the USGS Astrogeology Science Centre, the transition to the Uyuni quad is significant. Each Mars quadrangle is named after an Earth ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is continuing to perform experiments in Mars’ Gale Crater, even after more than 4,200 days on the martian surface. On Curiosity’s sol (the name given to a martian day ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is exploring a new region of interest ... The rover's one unsealed sample is its most recent, a rock core taken on April 28 that the team named "Bell Island ...

Perhaps one of the most valuable samples Curiosity has gathered on its mission to understand whether Mars was ever habitable was collected in May 2013. The rover drilled the Cumberland sample from ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover keeps photographing a maze — but it's not on Mars. Learn how this intricate pattern helps calibrate SHERLOC, the rover’s high-tech tool for detecting signs of ancient life.

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