After months of tests, NASA's Curiosity rover is settling down to the serious business of planetary exploration, positioning itself to drill into the crust of the red planet for the first time.

according to an interactive map that tracks its location and traverse path on NASA’s website. The samples, collected in titanium tubes after the rover uses its coring drill, are also marked on ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of Santa Cruz, a hill about 1.5 miles away from the rover, on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover ... rock brought back by the Perseverance rover are a critical part of its mission. It collects samples using a coring drill and seals them in titanium tubes.