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Exploring Mars for scientific discovery and to drive technologies enabling human exploration far from Earth.

  • NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven

    One of Perseverance’s navigation cameras captured this shot on Oct. 11, 2026, the Martian day, or sol, that a 299.6-foot (91.31-meter) drive pushed the rover’s total mileage past Opportunity’s 28.06-mile (45.16-kilometer) record on Mars.

    NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has driven farther than any vehicle ever has on the surface of another world. On Oct. 11, the rover’s odometer reached 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers), eclipsing the record of 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers) set by NASA’s Opportunity rover, which explored Mars from 2004 to 2018. Perseverance reached the mark on the 2,006th Martian […]

  • NASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna for SkyFall Mars Helicopters

    Three drone helicopters fly over a barren, reddish-brown rocky landscape. The foreground drone and two smaller drones in the background all project wavy, translucent red and green beams of light downward onto the rugged terrain below.

    When the trio of NASA’s SkyFall helicopters takes to the Martian skies, one of their tasks will be to hunt for frozen water — a critical resource for future astronauts — using ground-penetrating radar. For that radar to work, each rotorcraft will carry a flexible, fabric-based antenna that will need to extend below the aircraft […]