NASA will soon find out if the Perseverance rover can really persevere on Mars

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take ...
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover could break the record for miles driven on another planet

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.

Join NASA’s Mars rover on its record-breaking driver across the martian surface

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snaps 100,000th image

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) officially went into service above the Red Planet in November 2006. The spacecraft ...

One of NASA's key cameras orbiting Mars takes 100,000th image

After nearly 20 years on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped its 100,000th image of the ...
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NASA’s MAVEN went silent on Mars, here’s what we know

NASA’s veteran Mars orbiter MAVEN has slipped into an unnerving quiet, cutting off a decade of continuous atmospheric ...
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NASA Now Letting Mars Rover Drive Autonomously

The distance feat comes as the Mars Perseverance rover reaches another milestone. After nearly five years of roaming the Red Planet, it’s now traveled almost 25 miles. With the help of autonomous ...
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NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Spinning Helplessly After Signal Lost

Last week, NASA revealed that it had lost the signal from its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, one ...

NASA Has a New Chief. Here’s What He Could Do in His First 20 Days

Newly minted NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has expressed a desire to shake things up at NASA. It appears he’ll hit the ...
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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is still silent at Mars — and apparently is spinning, too

MAVEN (short for "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution") has been silent since Dec. 4, despite repeated efforts to hail the spacecraft, NASA announced in an update on Monday (Dec. 15). And a ...
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Camera on NASA Mars probe snaps its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet

Image number 100,000, which was captured on Oct. 7, "shows mesas and dunes within Syrtis Major, a region about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Jezero Crater, which NASA's Perseverance rover is ...

NASA's new leader makes his priorities clear on day one

"We are faced with another space race," Jared Isaacman, NASA's new administrator, told NBC News after he was sworn in on Thursday.