NASA will reveal the next Mars 2020 rover name on Thursday, ending their seven-month-long “Name the Rover” essay contest that 28,000 students took part in nationwide. ABC News.

Artist's illustration of NASA's Mars 2020 rover Perseverance on the Red Planet's surface. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Perseverance is scheduled to lift off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks virtually the same as Curiosity, but there are a number of differences. One giveaway to which rover you're looking at is 2020's aft cross-beam, which looks a bit like ...

The rover will reach Mars in just six to seven months. ... 2020, 1:00 PM UTC. NASA’s ... NASA’s latest Mars rover — a six-wheeled SUV-sized robot named Perseverance — successfully launched ...

For years, the new robotic explorer has been known simply as "Mars 2020." But last year, NASA held a contest asking students from around the US to write an essay suggesting a name for the rover.

NASA's Mars 2020 rover just earned its driver's license. The still-unnamed rover moved for the very first time Tuesday afternoon, and its proud parents are happy to report it passed the test.

This video explores NASA's successful transportation of their latest rover to Mars in 2020, highlighting the process and ...

NASA’s next major interplanetary mission is the Mars 2020 rover. The robot explorer is expected to touch down on the Red Planet in February 2021, but there is one key detail that remains to be ...

The Mars 2020 rover is in the assembly stage at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, and you can be a fly on the wall of the clean room. NASA launched a live webcam stream this week ...

NASA's 2020 Mars rover continues to make progress with one small stand. On October 8, NASA captured the rover standing independently with its full weight on its own six wheels.

On Friday, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced mission engineers have — among other milestones — taken the Perseverance rover out on a test drive. The Mars 2020 rover only drove a few ...