After sampling a rock that scientists believe contains the best chance of finding biosignatures, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover climbed out of Jezero Crater in December 2024 and is now exploring an area west of the crater rim.
Credit: JPL
When NASA reopened the exploration of Mars with the 1997 Pathfinder mission, it included a small, wheeled rover named Sojourner as a technology demonstration. “At the time, the majority of the planetary science community didn’t really think mobility was much of an advantage,” Matt Wallace, deputy...
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