March

The Perseverance Rover spies incredible blue rocks on Mars and makes incredible discoveries

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A rocky Martian landscape with various sizes and shapes of blue-tinted boulders scattered across a reddish-brown sandy terrain. The ground slightly rises in the background under a pale sky.

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the clearest image yet of the Martian landscape, showing incredible blue rocks on the dusty surface that raise crucial questions about the Red Planet’s complex history. The new image from Mars shows rich, dark blue, jagged volcanic rocks spread across an ancient Martian lake bed at Mount Washburn, named after a … Read more

Can Rocket Lab save NASA’s mission to bring pieces of Mars to Earth?

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An illustration of the Perseverance rover using its drill on a rock sample on Mars.

For more than three years, NASA’s Perseverance rover has roamed the Martian landscape, collecting bits and pieces of rock to be examined by scientists here on Earth. The space agency had come up with an elaborate plan to fly these samples from the Red Planet to Earth using a fleet of robots, but it later … Read more