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For nearly three years, the Rover Mission has employed AI to autonomously identify minerals within Martian rocks. This marks the first instance of using this technology on Mars to make real-time decisions about rock composition.

On January 18, Ingenuity executed its 72nd flight at the Red Planet.

The car-sized robot will drill one more sample from the current site on the Red Planet and then head towards the ancient river delta, NASA has said.

Three major expeditions from the US, China and the UAE reached Mars this year. Read more about these expeditions here…

When NASA's Sojourner rover landed on Mars in 1997, it proved that roving the Red Planet was possible and completely redefined our approach to how we explore Mars.

NASA expects the first test flight of the four-pound, four-blade rotorcraft to come "no earlier than the first week of April".

"A lot of people, when they see the images, don't appreciate that the wheels are metal," Vandi Verma, a senior engineer and rover driver at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a statement.

According to a report in Space.com on Wednesday, the deployment of wind sensor can be understood from the before-and-after pictured snapped by the robot's navigation cameras.

The Perseverance rover landed last Thursday near an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater to search for signs of ancient microscopic life.

While NASA's Mars Curiosity rover sent back a stop-motion movie of its descent, Perseverance's cameras are intended to capture video of its touchdown and this new still image was taken from that footage

"Good things come to those who persevere. Congrats @NASA and @NASAPersevere on a successful landing!" Google tweeted.

Engineers at NASA's mission control in California erupted with joy when confirmation of touchdown came through, the BBC reported on Thursday.

Unlike similar instruments aboard Mars orbiters, which study the planet from space, RIMFAX will be the first ground-penetrating radar set on the surface of Mars.