The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

Ingenuity's second aerial photo of the Martian surface The photos clearly show the tracks of the six-wheel Perseverance Mars rover. Perseverance carried Ingenuity nearly 300 million miles to Mars ...

Perseverance got a close-up from NASA’s eye in the sky, as well: NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance. Orbiter, which used a special high-resolution camera to capture the spacecraft sailing into Jezero ...

Scientists are cataloging and analyzing the first samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover while the agency weighs its options for returning them to Earth.

This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Joy, perseverance and touchdowns: See Tina MacIntyre-Yee's best photos ...

Pictures were taken by rotating the rover's mast 360 degrees. The mast is equipped with dual, zoomable cameras which can take high-definition video and images. The US space agency NASA has ...