Tag: red planet

Doorway on Mars

The Red Planet never fails to surprise us: first there was a pyramid, then there was a mystery woman, and then a smiley face. Now we have a doorway to an ancient temple. Of course, experts will say all these are only illusions. NASA’s Curiosity Rover took the picture of a “natural rock formation” in…


NASA’s Mars Rover Collects First Planetary Samples for Return to Earth

NASA’s Mars science rover Perseverance has collected and stashed away the first of numerous mineral samples that the U.S. space agency hopes to retrieve from the surface of the Red Planet for analysis on Earth, NASA said on Friday. Tools attached to Perseverance and operated by mission specialists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near…