And since it takes 11 minutes for a radio signal to get from Earth to Mars ... after landing. It will search for ancient microbial life by drilling and extracting core samples. The rover will ...

The Perseverance rover on Mars is set to begin its newest challenge: a slog up the rim of the Jezero Crater that will take months to complete. The rover will face steep slopes and difficult terrain, ...

Map of Utopia Planitia, Zhurong Mars rover landing site, and four possible ancient shorelines. [Photo/Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences] A team of Chinese and ...

China’s Zhurong Mars rover has found evidence of an ancient ... the findings can help inform decisions about potential landing sites for future missions to investigate the likely existence ...

The orange star represents the landing site of the Chinese rover Zhurong. The yellow star is the site of NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed a few months before Zhurong. Credit: Robert Citron (CN) ...

Getting to the Surface of Mars is called EDL - Entry, Descent, and Landing. This must happen autonomously. The main purpose of the rover is to ... sounding off At the site of the dinosaur-killing ...