The Perseverance rover, which recently completed its one Martian year of operations on the Red Planet, has successfully dropped five of the 10 sampling tubes with rock cores in them. ONE MARTIAN YEAR FOR PERSEVERANCE The SUV-sized rover marked its one Martian year of operations late last week as it continued to trundle on the floor of the Jazero crater, …
CNN — NASA’s Curiosity rover encountered something new on the Red Planet last week and the results could potentially have implications for life on Mars. The rover’s tunable laser spectrometer, called SAM, which stands for Sample Analysis at Mars, detected the largest amount of methane ever measured during its mission. But the agency also warned that expectations of life should …
