NASA had aimed to collect its first sample of Martian rock using the Perseverance rover yesterday, Friday, August 6, but the sampling attempt didn’t go as planned. The rover failed to collect a rock ...
A hole drilled in Martian rock by the Perseverance rover in its first attempt to collect a sample. Project scientists and engineers are trying to figure out why no material made it into the sample ...
The Perseverance rover, currently exploring Mars’s Jezero Crater, has run into a challenge when collecting samples from the planet. It recently attempted to collect a sample from a rock called Issole, ...
NASA briefly celebrated when it seemed the Perseverance rover had grabbed its first sample, but they soon realized the tube was empty. reading time 2 minutes The Perseverance rover may have hit its ...
For the Perseverance rover team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the early predawn hours of August 6 were like the night before Christmas. Hours earlier, the scientists had ordered the rover ...
Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. When ...
Before and after images from January 15 show the rocks Perseverance shed from its sampling system. Gif: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Perseverance team announced that the Mars rover managed to dislodge the ...
Cheyava Falls showed potential biosignatures. After a year of study, no one had come up with a better solution to what it was ...
After six months driving on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover attempted to drill into the Martian surface to take its first sample on 6 August. Everything seemed to go smoothly, but when the rover’s ...
Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Rock ...
Perseverance recently collected its 14th Mars rock sample but was unable to seal the tube. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's ...
What about those previously studied plumes of methane and meteorites potentially stuffed with the fossils of Martian microbes ...