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A view from the "Kimberley" formation on Mars taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. The strata in the foreground dip towards the base of Mount Sharp, indicating flow of water toward a basin that existed before the larger bulk of the mountain formed

 NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS 

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A map of Mars's ancient rivers unlocks new possibilities for learning about the Red Planet

The same tools scientists use to understand Earth's climate history may work on Mars, too

Rebecca Dzombak
China's Zhurong rover on Mars

 Steve Jurvetson/Flickr  

China lands its first rover on Mars, becoming the second country to do so

The Zhurong rover is the first Mars rover to carry a magnetometer

Briley Lewis
Technicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory lower the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover.

 Technicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory lower the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's Perseverance rover can make oxygen out of Martian air

The goal of putting humans on Mars is now one step closer

Briley Lewis
a mars rover being worked on in a lab by scientists in white clean suits

 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 

How the age of Mars rovers began

Perseverance is the fifth rover to land on the Red Planet. NASA scientists remember Mars Pathfinder’s Sojourner—the 90s experimental endeavor that started it all

Lauren J. Young