30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... life. Finding signs that ancient organisms once thrived on the planet is one of the major goals of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission and its Perservance rover. Nicknamed Percy, the small car-sized rover, which weighs just under...
22 March 2021
The first look at Ingenuity on Mars
...; a move which signals the process of safely delivering the Marscopter to the surface of the planet. When NASA’s Mars 2020 mission successfully deployed the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet over a month ago, nestled up sideways under its...
08 October 2021
Images confirm "once and for all" Jezero crater was an ancient Martian lake
...delta, say mission scientists in a new study. Jezero crater became the target of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission when observations from...before has such well-preserved stratigraphy been visible on Mars,” said Nicolas Mangold, a Perseverance scientist from the...
23 February 2021
NASA releases first audio recording of Mars and stunning landing video of Perseverance
...Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles never-before-seen views of a spacecraft landing on another planet, as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars...governing the rover’s surface mission. Officials said last week...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
... on fifth place by just one day to the UAE’s Hope Probe. The duo will soon be joined by NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, that will make its arrival in just over a week. Tianwen-1's first snapshot...
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
Touchdown! It is success for NASA as the agency’s Mars 2020 Perseverance spacecraft – the latest and most complex mission to the Red Planet – lands successfully on Mars after its seven month interplanetary journey. Perservance hit the atmosphere ...