When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.

NASA is about to lock in a verdict on how long its Perseverance rover can keep working on Mars, and the answer will shape the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...

The distance feat comes as the Mars Perseverance rover reaches another milestone. After nearly five years of roaming the Red Planet, it’s now traveled almost 25 miles. With the help of autonomous ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab experiments shaking sand around in a low-pressure carbon dioxide atmosphere, like ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover prepares for new rock sample collection at Lac de Charmes, following Margin Unit studies and continued mobility testing, as part of the Mars 2020 mission.

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges and their ...

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