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A dark rock picked off the gravel plains of Oman turned out to be a piece of Mars, blasted off the planet by an impact. It now rides aboard Perseverance as a calibration target, back on the world it came from - Space DailySpace Daily · Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:00:11 GMTPerseverance has driven a marathon across Mars in less than half the time Opportunity needed, with AutoNav choosing routes around hazards and a 2025 test completing the first AI-planned drives on another world - Space DailySpace Daily · Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:30:00 GMTThe stripes on Perseverance's parachute were mostly there so engineers could see how the canopy was oriented, but the pattern also hid a message in binary, and the internet decoded it within hours of the landing — a motto, and a set of coordinates pointing - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:30:20 GMTMars is no longer one grand mission: Perseverance has driven a marathon, sample return is still being redesigned, and NASA's Aeolus partnership shows how much Martian weather we still need to learn - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:30:00 GMTThe programme to return Perseverance's rock samples from Mars was cancelled by the US Congress in January 2026 — the rover has spent five years drilling and caching the most carefully selected geological samples in history, and right now there is no app - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:22:11 GMTMars rover watches Earth disappear behind Phobos photo of the day for Aug. 6, 2025 - SpaceSpace · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMTWhen a NASA microphone recorded the first sounds on Mars in 2021 it found something unexpected: sound above about 240 hertz travels roughly ten metres a second faster, so high-pitched parts of a sound can arrive before the bass - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:00:34 GMTPerseverance's Mars sample tubes were built to be among the cleanest objects humans have made, because their job is to preserve ancient Martian chemistry — and one untreated fingerprint would have exceeded the entire organic contamination allowance - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT