29 July 2020
Mars 2020 mission, Perseverance rover 'go for launch,' says NASA
... study. This is crucial for establishing whether any organic compounds it obtained really came as a result of living processes. Perseverance will build on previous orbital and landed missions, which established that the dry, cold Mars we see...
18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
...scientists and officials answered reporters’ questions about the mission in a virtual briefing on 17 June explaining that while Perseverance’s science instruments will analyze samples on site, proving that the conditions for life existed probably won...
22 March 2021
The first look at Ingenuity on Mars
... flight. An horizon-facing colour camera is expected to take a few colour images during flight. Before that happens, Perseverance will drive to a suitably flat location within a 10-day-drive of the landing site or up to one kilometer away—as the...
08 October 2021
Images confirm "once and for all" Jezero crater was an ancient Martian lake
... its formation. “Never before has such well-preserved stratigraphy been visible on Mars,” said Nicolas Mangold, a Perseverance scientist from the Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique in Nantes, France, and lead author of the paper. “This...
07 April 2021
Ingenuity survives first cold martian night on its own
.... Within 30 Martian days, or sols (a Martian day is 24.6 hours), on the surface, Ingenuity will complete its testing, and Perseverance’s scientific exploration of Jezero Crater will kick into high gear. “Our 30-sol test schedule is frontloaded with...
23 April 2021
Mars rover instrument, MOXIE, extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
... into oxygen. A toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilisation Experiment ... to Earth for in-depth analysis. The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration...
