NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the first-ever off-Earth sample depot for posterity. Perseverance built that depot on a patch of Martian ground called Three Forks over the course of five ...

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Second time's the charm. Sample tube 266 contains the rover's first rock, which NASA hopes to bring back to Earth on future missions for further study. Reading time 2 minutes For the Perseverance Mars ...

With the roughly 20-day wide launch window for the Mars 2020 mission rapidly approaching, the hype train for the next big mission to the Red Planet is really building up steam. And with good reason — ...

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NASA's Perseverance rover has probably collected its first rock sample on Mars, NASA has revealed, although it admits it needs more evidence of the intact sample to call the operation a full success.

"For all of NASA science, this is truly a historic moment." The sample rock is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, making it available for retrieval in the future. The samples would be ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has completed an important part of its historic mission on Mars, by collecting a sample of rock from beneath the surface of the Red Planet in a first for humans. The sample, ...