Related: 1 year later, Ingenuity helicopter still going strong on Mars ... In May, the rover also took images to show where the laser (a newer addition to the testing sequence) was used.

In the distance, a twisting plume of red dust - what scientists call a dust devil - spiraled across the landscape near the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has lived a charmed life on Mars since its landing in 2021, but NASA is now reporting the first significant hardware issue. A glitch with the robot's rock-scanning laser ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has encountered an intricate network of web-like rock formations in the Gale Crater region of Mars, a ...

“Our laser ablation ionization mass spectrometer, can effectively detect biosignatures in sulfate minerals. This technology ...

That’s what happened when Mars exploration expert Roger Wiens, professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences in the College of Science at Purdue University, had NASA’s Perseverance rover ...

“But up here on the crater rim, there are new and intriguing rocks everywhere the rover turns ... 83 from a distance by zapping them with a laser. Scientists are finding the western rim of ...

When the rover finally does ... It will be the first time this laser technique goes to Mars, but tests on Earth suggest it will work. The prototype found traces of organic molecules even in ...

NASA’s Mars rover has spotted something out of this world ... But after using Perseverance’s laser-powered SuperCam to check a nearby similar rock’s chemistry, NASA scientists ruled ...

Curiosity introduced a new way of exploring Mars. When the rover arrives in a new area, it looks around with its cameras, then zaps interesting rocks with its laser to identify which ones are ...

The rover's analysis, as well as satellite data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter satellite, suggest that the troughs and sediment channels may be traces of the ocean's coastline in the region ...