NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will look for signs of past microbial life, cache rock and soil samples, and prepare for future human exploration.

The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, seen during testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The 2,260-pound rover is the largest and most complex spacecraft ever sent to Mars.

During its harrowing descent to the surface of Mars last Thursday, NASA's Perseverance rover captured video that the agency is calling "How to Land on Mars." The video, along with other newly ...

NASA's Perseverance rover will look for signs of past life in a region of Mars where the ancient environment is believed to have been favorable for microbial life. Mars Perseverance Rover | NASA

Nasa’s Mars rover Perseverance has taken a short drive two weeks after touching down, mission managers have said. The six-wheeled, car-sized probe went 6.5 metres (21.3 feet) during a half-hour ...

From launch to the journey to Mars to atmospheric entry to surviving on the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover will have to endure a lot of extreme environments on its way to the Red Planet.

NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees, allowing the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument to capture its first panorama after touching down on the Red Planet on Feb 18.

The rover will leave those samples on the Red Planet's surface, that eventually are to be launched into Mars orbit by a future rover mission. A NASA spacecraft would retrieve them and return them ...