After successfully touching down on the Martian surface on February 18, 2021, NASA teams have started the many checkouts required to begin operating the Perseverance rover. The mission touched down within five meters of their landing target (the landing target that was chosen by the terrain relative navigation system, not the pre-planned estimation), and several minutes later sent its first image of the Martian surface back to Earth.
Data from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft has revealed the unsurprising —…
United Launch Alliance has launched NASA’s latest mission to Mars: the Perseverance rover and accompanying…
Launch of the Perseverance rover to Mars is nearly at hand, with United Launch Alliance…
The next Atlas V to launch a mission to Mars is at the launch site,…
With its launch just over three months away, NASA’s Perseverance rover is undergoing final critical…
