Perseverance Has Been Roving on Hard Martian Magma, Ground-Level Images Are Stunning

It was less than a year ago when the Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars, and already the little machine is part of the history books, as it helped NASA fly, for the first time, a helicopter on another world. As far as actual discoveries go, achievements have so far been modest, to say the least. Well, they were not actually modest, but were rather slow to unravel themselves. Until this week, that is, when the team that... (continue reading...)