Perseverance's Sample Tube Looks Clean: This image, taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 20, 2022, shows the rover successfully expelled the remaining large ...

NASA's Perseverance rover keeps dropping early Christmas presents on Mars. On Friday (Dec. 23), NASA announced that Perseverance successfully dropped its second rock sample tube on the Martian surface ...

Even the director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory thinks the Perseverance rover's rock sample tube looks like it belongs in a galaxy far, far away. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...

Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition. The tubes carried in the belly of ...

Second time's the charm. Sample tube 266 contains the rover's first rock, which NASA hopes to bring back to Earth on future missions for further study. Reading time 2 minutes For the Perseverance Mars ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is equipped with many high-tech tools to study the Red Planet, but it's also carrying tubes that will eventually come back to Earth. Samples from Mars have never been ...