The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week’s blog. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the bit carousel during a test. This is ...

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 ...

The Perseverance rover isn't letting any Martian dust settle under its wheels. It's preparing to collect a core sample from another rock on Mars after its first attempt earlier this month amounted to ...

The Perseverance rover attempted to collect its first sample of Mars last week, but it seems the red planet wasn't ready to cooperate. The Perseverance rover attempted to collect its first sample of ...

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However, the sample tube turned up empty. What happened? Perseverance has encountered this problem before: flashback to our first ever coring attempt. It's not a common occurrence, but sometimes the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover made history in late 2021 when it collected its first sample of Martian rock. The space agency will have Perseverance leave these samples, sealed in tubes, on the red ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is on the hunt for the "goldilocks" of rocks to sample on Mars. One of the key goals of Perseverance's mission is to collect rock samples that will be returned to Earth in a ...