Perseverance's Sample Tube Looks Clean: This image, taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 20, 2022, shows the rover successfully expelled the remaining large ...

Even the director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory thinks the Perseverance rover's rock sample tube looks like it belongs in a galaxy far, far away. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

A hole drilled in Martian rock by the Perseverance rover in its first attempt to collect a sample. Project scientists and engineers are trying to figure out why no material made it into the sample ...

The director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory wants to be a Jedi. Laurie Leshlin, peering at footage of a lightsaber-shaped sample tube dropped yesterday on Mars (Dec. 21) by NASA's Perseverance ...

Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition. The tubes carried in the belly of ...

When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars in February next year, it will begin its search for evidence of ancient life on the planet. To do this, the rover will be collecting samples of the Martian ...

Perseverance has stashed four out of 10 planned samples at the Three Forks sample depot on Mars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week’s blog. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the bit carousel during a test. This is ...