SPACE
Mysterious rocks found by Mars rover
Words by Mike Wall
Perseverance captured this image of ‘Santa Cruz’, a hill within Jezero crater
© NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance is starting to take the measure of its new Red Planet home.Perseverance has been focused primarily on supporting and documenting the pioneering flights of its little cousin, NASA’s 1.8-kilogram Mars helicopter Ingenuity. But the car-sized rover has been doing science work of its own in the background as well.