Perseverance

Mars helicopter went silent for six sols, imperilled Perseverance rover

Ingenuity's still setting records, but waking it up and chatting are getting harder

The Reg in Space30 May 2023 | 42

Perseverance rover shows up Curiosity with discovery of Martian water park

Latest snaps have NASA rethinking scale of rivers on the Red Planet

Science12 May 2023 | 23

Perseverance rover drops off first sample tube on surface of Mars

Woohoo! Cameras on robot's belly confirm it isn't going to drive over it

Science22 Dec 2022 | 30

NASA details totally doable, not science fiction plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth

So crazy, it just might work

Science29 Oct 2022 | 79

How this Mars rover used its MOXIE to convert CO2 into precious oxygen

Producing vital gas out of Red Planet's hostile atmosphere? Truly a test of Perseverance

Science01 Sep 2022 | 42

NASA has MOXIE, but rivals reckon they can do better for oxygen on Mars

Food and fuels, too? Totally not sounding like a Star Trek replicator

Science18 Aug 2022 | 39

NASA: Mars rocks won't make it back to Earth until 2033

Cute that they think the human race will still be here when Perseverance's samples arrive

Science28 Jul 2022 | 32

Mars Ingenuity helicopter and Perseverance are talking again

NASA drops heater temp to boost batteries as dust hits solar supply

Science09 May 2022 | 33

Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying

Ingenuity's Earth-side coding team has expanded, and so has its rover-assistance mission

Science16 Mar 2022 | 14

Perseverance on the rocks: Pebbles clog up the rover's Martian sample collection

Engineers try to clear material so Mars bot can continue drilling

Science11 Jan 2022 | 34

Mars helicopter mission (which Apache says is powered byLog4j) overcomes separate network glitch to confirm new flight record

Ingenuity clocks up 30 minutes flying in the Martian skies

Science16 Dec 2021 | 40

It's fake ooze, don't fall for fake ooze: Alien fossils found on Mars might just be simple chemistry, uni pair warn

Similar mistakes have been made in the past, after all

Science18 Nov 2021 | 37

NASA's Perseverance rover nabs two Martian rock samples for scientists on Earth to study one day

Too early to confirm ancient alien life, but a 'potentially habitable sustained environment,' though...

Science14 Sep 2021 | 11

Perseverance to take a second stab at Martian rocks ... but first it has to scratch'n'sniff

Hopefully this'll be the sample that eventually gets sent back to Earth

Science27 Aug 2021 | 9

NASA blames the wrong kind of Martian rock for Perseverance sample failure

Not a hardware or software bug, for a change

Science12 Aug 2021 | 37

NASA talks up Perseverance Mars rover's self-driving rock-avoiding abilities

AutoNav performs 'thinking while driving' – any chance we could get more of that on Earth ... for humans?

AI + ML02 Jul 2021 | 6

Perseverance Mars rover sets off on its first mission, to boldly drill and return samples as no rover has drilled before

All systems check out, it's time to science the s**t out of Mars

Science11 Jun 2021 | 13

You can listen right here to the whir of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world

Video NASA records, shares sound of Ingenuity drone on Mars, like we're in some kind of sci-fi flick

Science08 May 2021 | 57

NASA's Perseverance rover in brick form: China set vs unofficial Lego fan design

The Register goes a-building once more – no glue required this time

Bootnotes26 Mar 2021 | 34

NASA sets the date for first helicopter flight on another planet – and the craft will carry a piece of history

Fabric from Wright brothers' aircraft makes it to Mars

Science25 Mar 2021 | 43

Listen to The Sound of Perseverance: Not the death metal album, but NASA's Mars rover on the move

Rolling over the Martian stones toward a drop-off for the Ingenuity Helicopter

Science18 Mar 2021 | 31

Out of this world: Listen to Perseverance rover fire its laser at Mars rocks as the wind whips around it

Less pew, pew, pew and more click, click, click

Science12 Mar 2021 | 39

NASA shows Mars that humans can drive a remote control space tank at .01 km/h

Perseverance takes first drive around landing spot named in honor of seminal sci-fi author Octavia E. Butler

Science08 Mar 2021 | 29

NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video

Video See how plucky Perseverance touched down on the unforgiving dust world

Science23 Feb 2021 | 119

Hero to Jezero: Perseverance, NASA's most advanced geologist rover, lands on Mars, beams back first pics

Difficult entry, descent, landing process over, now for a search for ancient microbial life

Science18 Feb 2021 | 108

NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet

The tiny X-ray bullets are only the size of a grain of sand. Pew! Pew! Pew!

Science24 Sep 2020 | 22

And it's off! NASA launches nuke-powered, laser-shooting, tank Perseverance to Mars to search for signs of life

23 cameras, microphones and a helicopter on the rover to see and hear the Red Planet in living technicolor

Science30 Jul 2020 | 48

Sorry to drone on and on but have you heard of Ingenuity? NASA's camera-copter is ready to head off to Mars

Vid From the belly of Perseverance comes a revolution in Red Planet exploration

Science25 Jun 2020 | 30

NASA to send Perseverance, a new trundle bot, and Ingenuity, the first interplanetary helicopter, to sniff out life on Mars in July

Mars2020 mission will scout for interesting rocks to bring back to Earth

Science18 Jun 2020 | 30

NASA reveals the new wavy Martian wheels it thinks can crush the red planet

The Perseverance rover gets its grousers ahead of planned July/August launch

Science06 Apr 2020 | 40

No joy for all you Rover McRoverface fans: NASA's next Mars bot is christened Perseverance

Plucky droid will look for signs of microbial life, study climate to help prepare future visitors

Science06 Mar 2020 | 29