Science behind a selfie: How Perseverance rover clicked this historic image on Mars

Clicking a selfie is probably the most common thing we do in our everyday lives. All it takes is a click and a second. However, things are a little bit different when you are clicking the selfie of a rover 362 million kilometres away on another planet. The April 6 selfie of the Perseverance rover alongside…

Perseverance hits the road: Rover begins search for ancient microbial life on Mars

Over the next several months, Perseverance will be exploring a four sq km patch of the crater floor, from where it will collect soil samples. The Perseverance rover trundling the surface of Mars began its most critical mission phase — looking for ancient microbial life. This phase of the mission began on June 1, the…

NASA all set to launch Mars 2020 Perseverance rover today at 7.50 am EDT ( 5.20 pm IST)

After the successful launch of space crew dragon by sending astronauts to outer space station in the space, NASA is all set to launch it’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover at 7.50 am EDT ( 5.20 pm IST) today (July 30), Thursday on a United launch Alliance Atlas V Rocket from the space launch complex 41 at cape…