A “selfie” taken by the Perseverance Mars rover as it examines Cheyava Falls, an arrowhead-shaped rock in the center that contains potential biosignatures of past Martian life. Credit: ...

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While Perseverance completed a marathon on Mars within five years of its landing, NASA’s Curiosity rover had taken double the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just done something no Mars robot has attempted before: follow a route that was planned not by human drivers on Earth, but by an artificial intelligence model. Instead of ...

Mineralogical map of Jezero crater explored by the Perseverance rover. This mineral map was created from near-infrared (1-2.6 µm) CRISM imagery (Parente et al., 2021) using recently developed ...

A new NASA orbital image captures Perseverance after completing a marathon across the surface of Mars. NASA’s Perseverance ...

NASA has released details of a test it conducted in December in which it used generative AI to plan a route for the Perseverance rover. The test run seems to have gone rather well, prompting NASA to ...

NASA's Perseverance rover appears as a green speck on the Martian surface on June 13, 2026, a day before the robotic explorer marked a distance milestone, having traveled a full marathon (26.2 miles, ...