As you're reading this, NASA's Perseverance Rover is busy at work, steering itself across the Jezero crater landscape.
The dried-up river delta could reveal signs of past microscopic life.
Perseverance is collecting rock cores for return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return mission with an inbuilt comprehensive and complex sample collection system. "Percy" is rather smart - the rover has an enhanced self-driving ability and can adapt to the terrain - it can get around boulders on its own.
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Interesting Engineering highlights various Martian geological features, including those discovered by NASA's Curiosity rover over its 10-year voyage.
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In a first, researchers discovered a rare mineral that comes directly from Earth's lower mantle
