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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples. After collecting its first sample, named “Montdenier,” Sept. 6, the team collected a second...
News SciencesSeptember 10, 2021 -
Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample
NASA’s Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. A historical first!
News SciencesSeptember 7, 2021 -
NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars...
Data sent to Earth by NASA’s Perseverance rover after its first attempt to collect a rock sample on Mars and seal it in a sample tube indicate that no rock was collected during...
News SciencesAugust 6, 2021 -
NASA Perseverance Mars Rover to Acquire First...
NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample of Martian rock, which future planned missions will transport to Earth.
News SciencesJuly 21, 2021 -
[Press] French instrument SuperCam records audio...
On 1 May, the French-U.S. SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded for the first time on Mars the sounds from the Ingenuity helicopter during its fourth flight...
News SciencesMay 7, 2021 -
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to Begin New...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has a new mission. Having proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, the Ingenuity experiment will soon embark on a new...
News SciencesApril 30, 2021 -
Mars Helicopter: Second flight successful!
Nasa's Ingenuity helicopter successfully flew into the Martian skies for the second time, higher and longer. This second flight lasted 51.9 seconds against 39.1 seconds for...
News SciencesApril 22, 2021 -
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First...
The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich...
News SciencesApril 21, 2021 -
SuperCam and its super sensors
The French Space Agency (CNES) has reported the first images obtained on Mars using the Remote Micro-Imager (RMI) of the SuperCam instrument (the French contribution to NASA JPL...
News SciencesMarch 31, 2021 -
NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prepares for First...
NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
News SciencesMarch 23, 2021 -
Perseverance Rover’s SuperCam Science Instrument...
The first readings from the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover have arrived on Earth. The instrument delivered data to the French Space Agency’s operations...
News SciencesMarch 10, 2021 -
NASA's Perseverance Drives on Mars'...
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover performed its first drive on Mars March 4, covering 21.3 feet (6.5 meters) across the Martian landscape.
News SciencesMarch 5, 2021 -
ExoMars orbiter images Perseverance at landing...
The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, along with its parachute, heat shield and descent stage, in the Jezero Crater region of Mars.
News SciencesFebruary 25, 2021 -
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gives High-Definition...
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees, allowing...
News SciencesFebruary 24, 2021 -
[Mars 2020] Destination Mars : guidebook n°3
Once no more than a faint orange dot in the sky, in the space of less than a century Mars has become a keen focus of study. Its ancient river beds, outflow channels and giant...
News SciencesFebruary 12, 2021 -
ESA Mars orbiters support NASA Perseverance...
TGO will relay important data from Perseverance to Earth as soon as four hours after landing while Mars Express is monitoring the local conditions at the landing site, Jezero...
News SciencesFebruary 11, 2021 -
ESA welcomes positive review for Mars Sample...
An ambitious campaign by NASA and ESA to collect samples from the Red Planet and return them to Earth has been praised by an Independent Review Board set up to review the multi-...
News SciencesNovember 10, 2020 -
Flight over the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover...
This video shows Jezero crater, the landing site of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the Red Planet, based on images from ESA’s Mars Express mission.
News SciencesJuly 29, 2020
