Could you run a marathon on Mars? And also — would you want to?
NASA’s Perseverance rover just completed an off-Earth marathon: It has now traveled more than 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) across the Martian landscape after landing in February 2021, according to the mission team. The only other rover to complete a marathon on the Red Planet is Opportunity, which took over 11 years to traverse…
New images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover may show signs of what was once a rollicking river on Mars, one that was deeper and faster-moving than scientists have ever seen evidence for in the past. The river was part of a network of waterways that flowed into Jezero…
The rover found that Jezero Crater’s floor is made up of volcanic rocks that have interacted with water.
Scientists got a surprise when NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover began examining rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater in spring of 2021: Because the crater held a…
