Perseverance

NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars has confirmed the successful collection of its first rock sample.“One down, a lot more to go!” Kenneth A. Farley, professor of geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology and the mission’s…

The rock appeared exactly where it should have been - captured in the drill bit of NASA's newest Mars rover, Perseverance.After a baffling failure last month, NASA's newest Mars rover, Perseverance, successfully collected a rock sample on…

In Williamsburg, in a seven-acre park on the East River, spring will soon unfold in blue blossoms. Cornflowers are always the first to bloom in Marsha P. Johnson State Park's pollinator meadow, a welcome sign to bees and humans that things…

What is it like to land on Mars?Now you can watch as if you were there in captivating, high definition clarity.On Monday, NASA released a short video captured by the agency's spacecraft Perseverance as it fell through the Martian atmosphere…

An image from the video captured by multiple cameras when NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2021.NASA / JPL-CaltechNASA on Monday released a unique video of a spacecraft landing on another planet when multiple cameras…

When the Perseverance rover lands on Mars on Thursday, another NASA spacecraft already there will be listening to the blow that will occur when the newcomer arrives.The hope is that these blows will cause enough shaking to be detected by…

The newest Martian, a robot named Perseverance, is alive and well after his first day and night on the red planet, NASA scientists and engineers said Friday. Members of the triumphant team that manages the spaceship were delighted as they…

TO UPDATE: NASA successful landed his Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars. Read more about it here.NASA is hours away from its most ambitious Mars mission to date. The US space agency will attempt to land the Perseverance rover…

NASA safely landed a new robotic rover on Mars Thursday and began its most ambitious endeavor in decades to directly investigate whether there ever was life on the now barren red planet.While the agency has completed other missions to Mars,…