NASA’s Perseverance Rover Bringing 3D-Printed Metal Parts to Mars
This video clip shows a 3D printing technique where a printer head scans over each layer of a part, blowing metal powder which is melted…
Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Will Peer Beneath Mars’ Surface to Search for Signs of Life
The agency’s newest rover will use the first ground-penetrating radar instrument on the Martian surface to help search for signs of past microbial life. After…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Is Ready for Space Lasers
Perseverance is one of a few Mars spacecraft carrying laser retroreflectors. The devices could provide new science and safer Mars landings in the future. When…
NASA’s New Mars Rover Will Use X-Rays to Hunt for Chemical Fingerprints Left by Ancient Microbes
PIXL, an instrument on the end of the Perseverance rover’s arm, will search for chemical fingerprints left by ancient microbes. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover…
Countdown to Mars: A Story of Perseverance (Mars 2020 Rover Behind the Scenes Video)
“When you look at the team that put this robot together, and the team that put this launch vehicle together, that’s what they’ve done. They’ve…
NASA Mars Perseverance Test Rover’s First Drive
Engineers test drive the Earth-bound twin of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover for the first time in a warehouselike assembly room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion…
NASA Perseverance Rover’s Earthly Twin Moved to Mars Yard [Gallery]
Technicians move a full-scale engineering version of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover into its new home — a garage facing the Mars Yard at the agency’s…
NASA Perseverance Mars Rover’s Earthly Twin Is Moved to New Home
Did you know NASA’s next Mars rover has a nearly identical sibling on Earth for testing? Even better, it’s about to roll for the first…
This Interactive Tool Lets You Track NASA’s Perseverance Rover on Its Way to Mars in Real Time
A crisply rendered web application can show you where the agency’s Mars 2020 mission is right now as it makes its way to the Red…
One of the Most Difficult Missions Humanity Has Ever Undertaken: NASA Establishes Board to Review Mars Sample Return Plans
The board will assist with analysis of current plans and goals for one of the most difficult missions humanity has ever undertaken. NASA has established…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Powered Up for the First Time in Interplanetary Space
Headed to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover, the pioneering helicopter is powered up for the first time in interplanetary space as part of…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is Carrying First Spacesuit Materials to Mars – Here’s Why
In a Q&A, spacesuit designer Amy Ross explains how five samples, including a piece of helmet visor, will be tested aboard the rover, which was…
NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Cruising at 24,600 MPH on Its 300 Million Mile Journey to Mars
The team controlling NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has received telemetry (detailed spacecraft data) down from the spacecraft and has also been able to send…
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Launched on Ambitious Mission to Red Planet
The agency’s Mars 2020 mission is on its way. It will land at Jezero Crater in about seven months, on February 18, 2021. NASA’s Mars…
“Perfect” Launch Sends NASA’s Perseverance Rover on Seven-Month Journey to Mars
Not obstacles, not complexity — not even a worldwide pandemic — could keep NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover from blasting off on its historic mission…
Perseverance “Phones Home” – Next Stop Confirmed: Mars!
Today’s final critical milestone — acquisition of signal — has been achieved. In essence, Perseverance has phoned home to let NASA know it’s officially on…
Liftoff! NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Launches From Cape Canaveral Aboard Atlas V Rocket
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July…
MIT Is Going to Mars to Make Oxygen From Martian Air: With Perseverance and a Little MOXIE
Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air. On July…