Perseverance and its helicopter companion, Ingenuity, landed in Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient microbial life. As part of the search, the robotic explorer just ...

A spectacular new video takes viewers on a flight through an ancient lakebed on the surface of Mars, revealing details of the fascinating area known as Jezero Crater. The video pans around the 28 ...

In the short time since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, it’s already made history. At the moment, Mars and the Earth are on opposite sides of the ...

So, why Jezero Crater (below)? Well, the geology of the 28-mile-wide crater plays the most important role in why we all hope that Perseverance will land successfully in a few days. Most strikingly ...

Jezero crater, the destination of the Perseverance rover, is a promising place to look for evidence of extinct Martian life. An image obtained by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2015 of the ...

What makes Jezero so special? We spoke to an expert in Mars geology, Katie Stack Morgan of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to find out. The headline draw of the Jezero Crater is the nearby ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. These days, the Jezero crater on Mars is an arid, barren depression. But it was a very different place billions of years ago ...

The Jezero crater — a dry, wind-scoured patch of Martian rock where the rover touched down in February — was once a lake bed fed by an ancient river with floods so powerful they could move ...

In an update, the team said its latest findings provide greater detail of the region, with the rover taking four samples from an ancient river delta in the 28-mile-wide Jezero Crater since July.

The Jezero Crater on Mars was named after the earthly village of Jezero, Bosnia. When NASA successfully touched down its Perseverance rover Thursday at the Jezero Crater on Mars, cheers erupted at ...

Late in August, Perseverance began a slow ascent to the top of the Jezero Crater, where it originally landed. The milestone came at the same time as another NASA vehicle, its Ingenuity helicopter ...