Artist's illustration of Perseverance traveling through Jezero Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL After exploring the bottom of a Martian crater for three and a half years, NASA's Perseverance is preparing ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept Illustration: A Sample Retrieval ... The method was previously used for the Perseverance and Curiosity missions. The second option would be to use a ...

Illustration: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC Check ... is how NASA aims to bring Martian rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth in a safe, cost-effective, and timely manner.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...

It wasn’t, of course, anything of the sort—merely a crevice resulting from natural erosion—but in the wake of that image both of NASA’s rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, have been ...

One would be to use a version of the sky crane system that was used to land both the Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity safely on the Martian surface. The other would be to use a heavy lander ...