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NASA's Perseverance rover just went for its first drive on Mars, then spotted its own wheel tracks in the dirt mmcfalljohnsen@insider.com (Morgan McFall-Johnsen) © NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Perseverance rover captures its own wheel tracks during its first drive on Mars, on March 4, 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on Thursday. The rover snapped photos of its wheel tracks in the Martian dirt. Now NASA engineers and scientists are plotting Perseverance's route to an ancient river delta. NASA's Perseverance rover left its footpr...

news Busy days ahead for Nasa's Perseverance rover The American space agency is expected to release new photos from its Perseverance rover shortly. There was huge excitement at Nasa when its robot touched down in Mars' Jezero Crater on Thursday. Satellites have since been flying over the vehicle to pull off data to relay back to Earth. Among all this information should be further views from the rover - of its surroundings, and some pictures it took during the descent to the surface. Perseverance is sitting almost bang in the middle of its targeted landing zone, about 2km to the southeast of w...

Nasa's Mars rover set for daunting landing