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This will be a test drive like no other. An SUV-size rover will roll across a seemingly alien red landscape this week, climbing slopes and maneuvering over rocks and other obstacles for the sake of ...

“This was our first chance to ‘kick the tires’ and take Perseverance out for a spin,” said Anais Zarifian, a mobility testbed engineer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. “The rover’s six-wheel drive ...

Last week, NASA’s Perseverance rover shot for a new milestone in the search for extraterrestrial life: drilling into Mars to extract a plug of rock, which will eventually get fired back to Earth for ...

The Perseverance Mars rover is sailing through its initial checkout and activation, beaming back some 7,000 photos to date, unlimbering its seven-foot-long robot arm and taking a short test drive ...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover, which made its daring landing just last month, made its first test drive on the Red Planet Thursday afternoon, the space agency said Friday, a major first step in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Perseverance rover has taken its first test drive on Mars, the agency announced Friday ...