NASA’s latest Mars rover — Perseverance — is its most advanced to date, carrying with it a plethora of technology that includes a suite of 23 cameras. We’ve already been treated to incredible footage from several of the cameras, captured as the rover approached the surface of the red planet on February 18, 2021. Within […]
NASA’s Perseverance rover is currently undergoing checks to ensure it’s ready to start exploring its new surroundings on Mars. But that hasn’t stopped the mission’s team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California from firing up some of the rover’s many cameras to capture amazing imagery from inside Jezero Crater where it touched down […]
Before writing about games, I had a lot of different jobs. I sorted packages at a FedEx facility, I built delivery pallets at a Kroger distribution center, and I worked as a courier. Now that I spend all day at a desk thinking about video games, I definitely harbor a slight longing for something more […]
Did you know you can track the progress of NASA’s Perseverance rover in real time as it travels tens of millions of miles toward Mars? This weekend NASA pointed space fans to its interactive Eyes on the Solar System desktop app that lets you track the current location of the Mars 2020 rover, among a […]
When it heads to the red planet later this year, NASA’s Perseverance rover won’t just be carrying scientific instruments — it will also carry the names of millions of space fans. Last year, NASA launched its “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign in which members of the public were invited to submit their names to […]
NASA announced Mars 2020 Rover’s new name, Perseverance, during a live event on Thursday, March 5. Perseverance was submitted by high school student Alexander Mather, who attends Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia. “We are always curious and seek opportunity, but if rovers are to be the qualities of us as a race, we […]