NASA has named its Mars 2020 rover, “Perseverance,” as it prepares for launch this summer. The name is a result of a nationwide contest, which accepted more than 28,000 essays from K-12 ...

When NASA’s Mars 2020 mission finally gets underway about a year from now it’ll have been a long time coming. The mission has been in the works for years, and the ultra-high-tech rover will ...

The rover is embarking on a long climb up the crater rim, signaling the beginning of its fifth major campaign since landing ...

We’re still about a year away from the launch of the Mars 2020 mission, but NASA’s shiny new rover is rapidly taking shape already. The rover, which is far more advanced than any machine NASA ...

In April, Mars 2020 got an antenna that will enable it to communicate with Earth. NASA will be able to steer this antenna to point directly at Earth. That way, the rover won't have to change ...

The Perseverance rover is the centerpiece of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, working to collect data in preparation for future human exploration of the Red Planet.

Such as, say, Mars. So [Matthew Earl] sought to give Perseverance rover’s landing video some context by projecting onto orbital imagery from ESA’s Mars Express. The resulting video (embedded ...

NASA-JPL/CALTECH Nasa's Mars 2020 rover will find the rock samples and leave them for the fetch rover to pick up America has already funded and built next year's rover which will be sent to find ...

the European Space Agency released the ExoMy rover for those who want to experience a little bit of Mars from home. ExoMy’s quoted price of admission is in the range of 250-500€. Perusing ...

The Mars 2020 rover will be powered by a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG)—similar to the unit currently providing power to Curiosity in Gale Crater—which converts heat ...

In 2020, NASA intends to follow up its initial Martian 'checkup' with this Mars 2020 rover. "The Mars 2020 mission is planned to launch in July 2020, landing on Mars in February 2021," NASA said ...