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With its recent 21st flight complete, the Red Planet rotorcraft is on its way to setting more records during its second year of operations.

NASAs Perseverance grabs 7th rock sample on Mars - Perseverance drilled the seventh sample from the floor of the Red Planet`s Jezero Crater.

NASA recently announced that its Mars rover, Perseverance, has collected its seventh rock sample from the Red Planet. The rover is expected to collect one more sample before it heads to the Jezero Crater's ancient river delta to find signs of ancient Martian life.

A year after landing on Mars, Perseverance rover sets sights on intriguing new target

A year ago, two robots landed on Mars and forever changed the way we explore the red planet.

For all of the challenges Perseverance overcame in its first year on the red planet, the most difficult may be yet to come: returning samples of Mars to Earth.

It's been one year since NASA's car-sized rover Perseverance has landed on Mars, together with its helicopter buddy, Ingenuity. During its stay...

NASA marks one year of successful operation of its Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on Mars but now races to collect evidence of life.

The Mars Perseverance rover has spent the majority of the past year exploring the floor of Jezero Crater, once home to a Martian lake more than 3 billion years ago. Now, its time for the robotic explorer to move on to the main reason for being on Mars: studying the remains of an ancient river delta that once fed into the lake.

The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including a record for the most distance driven by a Mars rover in a single day