So, now we know what a laser sounds like on another world. The US space agency's Perseverance rover has deployed its SuperCam instrument on Mars for the first time. This high-intensity light probe ...

The Perseverance rover is at risk of losing its ... One of two covers on SHERLOC, an instrument fitted on the end of the robot’s arm to look for microscopic clues on rocks, is partially open ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover that collected the more-than two-dozen samples is powering on at the top of the Jezero Crater where it landed in 2021. A collection of Martian rocks could reveal ...

Nasa's Perseverance robot will carry with it a meteorite that originated on the Red Planet and which, until now, has been lodged in the collection of London's Natural History Museum (NHM).

The Depot Caching strategy to be used at Jezero Crater. Source: NASA Still, whatever robot is sent to clean up after Perseverance has its work cut out for it; since the SHA cannot reach down to ...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its 26th collected rock sample, named “Silver Mountain,” using its onboard Sample Caching System Camera, located inside the rover’s ...