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Perseverance Rover Spots NASA’s Busted Helicopter at Its Final Resting Place
NASA’s iconic Martian duo have officially parted ways, with the Perseverance rover capturing a lonely view of its helicopter friend, which recently suffered a fatal blow that left it unable to fly. A recent image beamed down from Mars shows the Ingenuity helicopter parked atop the sand dunes of Mars’ Neretva Vallis, as Perseverance rolls…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Preserved Organic Matter on Mars
It’s not preserved matter from biological organisms, but the discovery is a boost to the rover’s mission: finding signs of ancient life on Mars.
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Spots Evidence of a Turbulent River on Mars
The Perseverance rover mission on Mars is exploring a dried-up river delta that once fed into a large crater lake on the planet. Now, NASA scientists have found evidence of one such river, which was apparently deeper and faster-moving than previously discovered ancient waterways.
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Perseverance Completes Its Sample Depot After 2 Years on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2020, and has since been spending every Martian sol exploring the western end of Jezero Crater, imaging the Martian surface, and — vitally — collecting rock samples that will be shipped to Earth in the early 2030s.