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News Articles: perseverance rover

NASA's Perseverance Rover shared the sights of Mars when it took this picture in June. Now it is sharing the sounds of the Red Planet.

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  • Space

Listen to the otherworldly sound of Martian wind

Two microphones aboard the Perseverance Rover make it possible to listen in on the Red Planet. They've captured nearly five hours of sounds, including the Martian wind.

October 23, 2021
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  • Nell Clark
GPB News NPR

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  • Space

NASA Makes New Plans For Ingenuity Helicopter On Mars

NASA announced Friday that it would be increasing operational testing on its Ingenuity helicopter following four successful test flights off the surface of Mars.

May 01, 2021
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  • Elena Moore
Technicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory lower an instrument known as MOXIE, or the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, into the belly of the Perseverance rover. NASA announced the instrument had produced oxygen from the Martian atmosphere.

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  • Space

Out Of Thin Air: NASA Rover Makes Oxygen From Martian Atmosphere

Fresh off the first powered flight on another world, NASA's Mars 2020 mission has managed another key first that could pave the way for future astronauts.

April 22, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman and
  • Joe Palca
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 30, 2021.

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  • Space

With Mini Helicopter On Mars, NASA Hopes To Reinvent Flight 'On Another World'

The successful deployment of Ingenuity brings NASA one step closer to its first attempt at testing the possibility of powered, controlled flight on another planet.

April 04, 2021
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By:
  • Chloee Weiner
Canyon de Chelly National Monument ("Tséyi'" in Navajo) in Arizona is located on Navajo Nation land.

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  • Space

Mapping Máaz: NASA Uses Navajo Language to Name Features on Mars

Members of NASA's Perseverance rover team, in collaboration with the Navajo Nation, have been naming features of scientific interest with words in the Navajo language.

March 12, 2021
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  • Catherine Whelan
An image captured by the navigation cameras of NASA's Perseverance rover shows tracks on the surface of Mars during the rover's first test drive on March 4.

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  • Space

In First Test Drive On Mars, Perseverance Rover Makes A Short But Significant Trip

The NASA rover traversed some 21 feet of terrain this week, in its first test drive since landing on the red planet. It also captured photos of its touchdown site and the wheel tracks it left behind.

March 06, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
In this photograph taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter the various components of the Mars mission are seen on the planet's surface following landing.

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  • Science

Perseverance's Video Cameras Capture Its Arrival On Mars (There's Audio, Too)

Six off-the-shelf cameras comprised the spacecraft's EDL Cam system (Entry, Descent and Landing). Together they provided a spectacular view of the Rover's arrival on the red planet.

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Mark Katkov

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