If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Perseverance rover is equipped with a suite of imaging tools that will help it ...

NASA scientists are storing some of these rocks for a future mission to bring samples back to Earth. As we prepare to one day send humans to Mars, these discoveries are helping shape our understanding ...

A new NASA study is putting future astronaut gear to the test—right on the Martian surface—with the help of the Perseverance rover. At left is NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, with a circle indicating ...

But the rover has been exploring the red planet since 2021, and it’s been carefully amassing a rock collection that could change our understanding of Mars’ history, how it compares to our own ...

“But up here on the crater rim, there are new and intriguing rocks everywhere the rover turns ... formed at least 3.9 billion years ago during Mars’ earliest geologic period, and may have ...

You wanna drive a Mars rover? Well sorry, but you can't. You could, however, buy and drive a li'l four-wheel-drive rover that can be controlled from anywhere in the world via 4G cellular networks.

A collaborative research team has improved visual localization and topographic mapping techniques that enable China's Zhurong rover to navigate and conduct scientific investigations on Mars.

Dust devils are not only whipping up dust on Mars – they’re revealing new secrets about the planet’s atmosphere. In a recent video, NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded a rare and spectacular scene on ...

Mars is a dead planet ... when the Perseverance rover was still traveling the western rim of the Jezero Crater. Perseverance has a pretty interesting relationship with Martian dust devils ...

The rover was around 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) from the pair when this happened. The larger devil is estimated to measure around 210 feet (65 meters) wide, while the smaller cone appears to be just ...

As the Mars rover Perseverance crested the top of Witch Hazel Hill, its operators back on Earth expected amazing things. This area on the western rim of the Jezero crater, along an ancient river ...

(Artistic concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com On Mars, swirling columns of dust—known as dust devils—regularly roam the landscape, sometimes colliding in dramatic displays like one recently captured by ...