Late in August, Perseverance began a slow ascent to the top of the Jezero Crater, where it originally landed. The milestone came at the same time as another NASA vehicle, its Ingenuity helicopter ...

NASA's Perseverance rover triumphantly celebrated the end of a tough climb out of the Jezero Crater on Mars with new images and a new science campaign. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...

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Well, look at that. The Perseverance rover has clambered out of the crater that’s been its cradle for nearly four years on the Red Planet. Perseverance landed on Mars in February 2021.

New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon's oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, may be round, as opposed to the oval shape than scientists ...

The team this year has been driving the rover up the steep slopes of Jezero Crater, hoping to reach what they call Lookout Hill on the crest of the crater rim. That drive has proved to be a slog.

The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest, not just on the Moon, but in the entire Solar System. The South Pole-Aitken basin covers nearly a quarter of the Moon's ...

The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that preserves secrets about the moon's early history, much like a ...

Research conducted in Antarctica shows that there may potentially be a funnel under the ice shell on Wilkes Land that exceeds the Vredefort crater with a diameter of 300km, which appeared almost two ...

This family home in Vredefort offers: enclosed front patio, lounge, dining room, passage with built-in cupboard, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, laundry, double garage, outside storeroom & toilet, ...

In addition to a general deepening, big chunks have been lost from the interior cliff walls, particularly at the southern end of the crater. There is evidence of continued infall of loose material ...