Since its deployment in February 2021, Perseverance has been diligently collecting samples of Martian rock and soil, which are currently stored in canisters on the planet's surface.

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

We may be about to discover the fate of the Mars samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover. On Tuesday, January 7 at 1:00 pm EST, NASA administrator Bill Nelson and associate administrator Nicky ...