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NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...
On the eve of the 249th anniversary of American independence, NASA on Tuesday showcased a patriotic image of Old Glory as ...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover ground down a portion of a rock surface, blew away the resulting debris, and then went to work ...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The United States flag adorns an aluminum plate mounted at the base of the mast, or "head," of NASA's ...
If you've spent any time perusing the carousel of raw images from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, you might have stumbled across an odd subject: a tiny, intricate maze etched into a small plate, ...
This 0.6-mile-wide crater was created by a meteorite impact eons ago, and shows multiple locations of exposed bedrock and a region where the sedimentary layers angle downward.
In addition to drilling rock core samples, the science team has been grinding its way into rocks to make sense of the ...
It is one of seven instruments on the Mars rover, and together with its sidekick WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering), the pair have been zapping rocks with lasers ...
NASA engineers are working to close one of two dust covers, stuck open on a camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, to help scientists resume collecting crucial data on the Red Planet.
Related: NASA rover discovers out-of-place 'Skull' on Mars, and scientists are baffled. Advertisement. ... and it's called the Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering.
NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.