Medicine & TechnologyPerseverance rover will drop Ingenuity from its belly and film its flights. According to NASA, the helicopter will take to the air as early as the first week of April.
NASA honors the Native American Navajo language through the names of different features found by the Perseverance on Mars, starting with the rock named "Máaz" - Navajo for "Mars."
NASA Mars Perseverance rover flexes its arm on Mars for the first time. It is testing its components and confirmed nothing was damaged during the landing.
When the Perseverance Rover of NASA led itself to the surface of Mars on February 18, it did so through the help of the same processor that operated the iMac G3 in the late 1990s.
NASA Perseverance's high-resolution panorama reveals rocks that Martian winds have eroded for billions of years and structures that ancient volcanoes may have formed.
Although NASA had successfully landed Perseverance on Mars a few days ago, many netizens inadvertently posted a fake video on Twitter regarding the same.
Experts say bringing people to Mars is probably still decades out despite Elon Musk's plan to bring them to the Red Planet due to different factors at hand.
The NASA Perseverance Mars rover is expected to land on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 3:55pm EST. After a 292.5 million mile journey that began on July 30, the Mars rover will finally touch down on the red planet this afternoon on the U.S. eastern time zone.
The Perseverance rover, the core of the $2.7-billion Mars 2020 mission of NASA, is slated to land on February 18, kicking off a new Red Planet exploration era.
Scientists explain how the Perseverance rover will be searching for signs of life on Mars, starting with the Jezero Crater. They hope to find traces of Martian microbes in what used to be a lake.