Landing on Mars: ‘7 minutes of terror’ Perseverance is NASA’s ninth landing on Mars and the agency’s fifth rover. In order to land, it had to go through the infamous “seven minutes of ...

Editor's note: NASA's Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars on Feb. 18. Read the full story here. The landing of NASA's next Mars rover is now just days away. The car-size ...

Currently hurtling through space, rapidly approaching its destination, NASA's Perseverance rover will make the most difficult landing ever attempted on Mars on Thursday, before it begins its hunt ...

The NASA Perseverance rover has been confirmed to be healthy ... About 45 days before landing on Mars, the spacecraft will enter the approach phase, with more correction maneuvers to its trajectory.

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We don’t touch it at all.” The EDL system used by Perseverance is similar to the one used for landing NASA’s previous Mars rover, Curiosity, which touched down in 2012. And that gives the ...

In the distance, a twisting plume of red dust - what scientists call a dust devil - spiraled across the landscape near the ...

The rover took the image — its fifth since landing in February 2021 — between stops investigating the Martian surface.

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Taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, onlookers noticed a particular dust looming in the background. We'll take a closer look at what that was all about and the complexities behind the photo. We're ...