Sounds of Perseverance driving on Mars: NASA releases audio clip of the rover’s six wheels ‘banging and pinging’ in the Martian dirt as it encounters a dust devil NASA released the first audio clip of Perseverance driving on Mars The raw audio is 16 minutes long and plays bangs, pings and rattles of its wheels … Read more
NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent the last week on the surface of Mars and in that short time has already sent back thousands of photos – including a cheeky selfie. The latest rover from the US space agency landed on the Red Planet just before 21:00 GMT on Thursday, February 18 after a hair raising … Read more
NASA gave the world a tour of Mars using the high resolution 360-degree panorama Perseverance sent back from the Red Planet. The rover captured the scene using its powerful Mast Camera Mastcam-Z for short, as it sat about one and a half miles from the basin of the Jezero Crater with mountains in the distance … Read more
Internet sleuths have uncovered a hidden message left by NASA on the inside of the parachute that landed Perseverance on Mars – it says ‘Dare Mighty Things’ in binary. The code was written into the lining of the parachute, made from a custom material crafted in Devon, and kept under wraps until it was deployed … Read more
A full-size ‘twin’ of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover just moved into its home at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Optimism, a vehicle system test bed rover (VSTB), passed its first driving test in JPL’s massive assembly room with flying colors. Engineers will soon take it for a spin in the Mars Yard, … Read more