UPDATE for 11 am ET: NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered sediment formations that could be signs of possible biosignatures on Mars, but they could also have a non-biological source. Read our ...

A new technology lets NASA’s Mars rover pinpoint its position within inches, drive farther on its own, and speed up exploration.

NASA released a new video Monday from last week’s historic landing of the rover Perseverance on Mars. “These are the stuff of our dreams. It’s what we’ve been dreaming about,” Al Chen, Perseverance ...

On Earth, we can punch an address into Google Maps and be on our way in seconds. But plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult.

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Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

With the help of a new optical system, the Perseverance rover can determine its position on Mars autonomously and much more accurately than before.

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