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An illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover exploring inside Mars' Jezero Crater. The 28-mile-wide...
This Mastcam-Z image shows Perseverance's drill with no cored-rock sample evident in the sample tube. The image was...
This image shows a cylinder of rock the size of a piece of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...
NASA's Perseverance rover deposited the first of several sample tubes onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the...
Engineers react with surprise while testing how NASA's Perseverance rover will deposit its sample tubes on the...
This photomontage shows each of the sample tubes shortly after they were deposited onto the surface by NASA's...
NASA's Perseverance rover deposited the first of several samples onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the...
Mars Sample Return program manager, JPL, Bobby Braun, gives remarks during a NASA Perseverance rover press briefing...
Engineers use OPTIMISM, a full-size replica of NASA's Perseverance rover, to test how it will deposit its first...
NASA's Perseverance Mars will use a tool on its robotic arm to abrade the rock, nicknamed "Rochette," at the center...
Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, left, and Mars Sample Return...
NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission will go to a region of Mars thought to have offered favorable conditions long ago for...
Perseverance deputy project scientist, JPL, Ken Williford, screen left, and Participating scientist for returned...
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory performed tests on rocks such as this one to understand why the first...
Mars Sample Return program manager, JPL, Bobby Braun, left, gives remarks during a NASA Perseverance rover press...
This image of the hole drilled by NASA's Perseverance rover during its first sample-collection attempt was imaged by...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to take this image of the location where three of its 10...
A close-up view of NASA’s C-130 aircraft that carries the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars...
Workers offload the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover from the agency’s C-130...
This animation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collecting a sample from a rock the science team calls "Bunsen...
The Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover arrives aboard NASA’s C-130 aircraft at the...
Workers prepare to offload the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover from the agency’s...
Six facsimile sample tubes hang on the sample tube board in the offices of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover mission at...
Workers use a special handling device to offload the Adaptive Caching Assembly (ACA) for NASA’s Mars Perseverance...