Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Perseverance rover captured this portrait of its recently completed 10-sample depot using its Mastcam-Z camera on Jan. 31, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie looking down at one of 10 sample tubes deposited at the sample depot it created in ...

Perseverance has stashed four out of 10 planned samples at the Three Forks sample depot on Mars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

"#SamplingMars is one of my most complicated tasks. Early pics and data show a successful drill hole, but no sample in the tube–something we’ve never seen in testing on Earth," the rover's Twitter ...

NASA's Perseverance rover keeps dropping early Christmas presents on Mars. On Friday (Dec. 23), NASA announced that Perseverance successfully dropped its second rock sample tube on the Martian surface ...

NASA had aimed to collect its first sample of Martian rock using the Perseverance rover yesterday, Friday, August 6, but the sampling attempt didn’t go as planned. The rover failed to collect a rock ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2020, and has since been spending every Martian sol exploring the western end of Jezero Crater, imaging the Martian surface, ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the first-ever off-Earth sample depot for posterity. Perseverance built that depot on a patch of Martian ground called Three Forks over the course of five ...