One of its missions is to take rock core samples that will eventually be collected via the Mars Sample Return mission. The NASA video above shows a montage of high-resolution images from the rover ...

A post on Perseverance’s X account described the sample — named Silver Mountain by NASA — as “unlike anything we’ve seen before,” adding that it’s sealed the rock core in a sample ...

In the next decade, space agencies plan to bring rock samples from Mars to Earth. But what if these rocks contain alien microbes? Scientists are taking this concern seriously, as any unknown life ...

A core is a sample of rock in the shape of a cylinder. Taken from the side of a drilled oil or gas well, a core is then dissected into multiple core plugs, or small cylindrical samples measuring ...

Not to be outdone in the field of ambitious sample return missions, NASA and ESA’s joint plan to collect and return rock core samples from Mars has met with the approval of the independent ...

(Philg88/Wikimedia Commons) "Many drilled rock cores showed visible gold," said bureau prospector Chen Rulin at the time of ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

Collected from Blue Hill, this 2.9cm rock core is the first Noachian-aged outcrop sample. NASA describes it as a “one-of-a-kind treasure” for studying Mars’ ancient geological history.