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NASA's Perseverance rover collects puzzle pieces of Mars' history
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the region.
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NASA's perseverance rover collects first Mars rock samples
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US] September 7 (ANI): National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Perseverance rover on Monday (local time) completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil.
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NASA's Mars rover fails in first attempt to collect rock samples
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], August 7 (ANI): NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has failed in its first attempt to grab rock samples on Mars for future return to Earth.
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NASA Perseverance Mars rover to acquire first sample of Martian rock
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], July 22 (ANI): NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample of Martian rock, which future planned missions will transport to Earth. The six-wheeled geologist is searching for a scientifically interesting target in a part
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NASA's self-driving perseverance Mars Rover 'takes the wheel'
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 2 (ANI): NASA's newest six-wheeled robot on Mars, the Perseverance rover, is beginning an epic journey across a crater floor seeking signs of ancient life, the US space agency announced on Thursday.
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Ready for lift off? NASA's Ingenuity helicopter set to make history
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 19 (ANI): NASA, America's space agency, will attempt to fly its miniature helicopter--Ingenuity--above the surface of the red planet Mars on Monday (local time).
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NASA's Mars Helicopter to make first flight attempt on Sunday
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 10 (ANI): NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is two days away from making humanity's first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. If all proceeds as planned, the 4-pound (1.8-kg) rotorcraft is expected to take off from Mars' Jezero Cra
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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity survives its first chilly Martian night
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 6, (ANI): NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has survived its first cold Martian night on its own. The space agency's Perseverance rover, which landed safely in the Jezero Crater on the surface of Mars on February 18, has been carrying the helicopter Ingenuity in its bel
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NASA's Perseverance rover gives high-definition panoramic view of landing
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 25 (ANI): NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Sunday, after rotating its mast, or "head," 360 degrees, allowing the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument to capture its first panorama after touching d
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NASA's Perseverance rover sends sneak peek of Mars landing
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
California [US], February 20 (ANI): Less than a day after NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were working hard, awaiting the next transmissions from Persever
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Perseverance Rover will peer beneath Mars' surface
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 9 (ANI): After touching down on the Red Planet on February 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will scour Jezero Crater to help us understand its geologic history and search for signs of past microbial life. But the six-wheeled robot will not be looking jus
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AI is helping scientists discover fresh craters on Mars
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [USA], October 2 (ANI): Sometime between March 2010 and May 2012, a meteor streaked across the Martian sky and broke into pieces, slamming into the planet's surface. The resulting craters were relatively small -- just 13 feet (4 meters) in diameter. The smaller the features, the m
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