Perseverance

• Mission to Mars: Canadian ‘Ingenuity’ gets us closer to the red planet

  Their careers have taken twists and turns, but these young Canadians have landed jobs doing things that are literally out of this world.

  Science

  Apr 10, 2021
  
• Calgary-based EVANS ‘proud’ to be part of NASA’s Perseverance rover project

  EVANS supplied control room consoles to NASA in Texas for the Mars-bound Perseverance rover.

  Science

  Feb 26, 2021
  
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• Internet sleuths crack secret message hidden on Mars Perseverance’s parachute

  Upon closer inspection, the parachute design was not symmetrical. Yet neither was the pattern random.

  Science

  Feb 26, 2021
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• NASA’s Mars rover ‘Perseverance’ lands with the help of Quebec-born engineer

  Over the next two years, Percy, as the rover is nicknamed, will use its two-metre arm to drill down and collect rock samples with possible signs of bygone microscopic life

  Tech

  Feb 18, 2021
• NASA’s Perseverance rover sends back ‘stunning’ images after landing on Mars

  The space agency says the six-wheeled Perseverance hurtled through the thin, orange atmosphere and settled onto the surface Thursday in the mission's riskiest manoeuver yet.

  Science

  Feb 18, 2021
• Mars scientist from Alberta excited to begin exploration after successful rover landing

  The Perseverance Rover is a probe designed to eventually bring back rocks from the red planet that could reveal signs of life.

  Canada

  Feb 18, 2021
• NASA launches Mars rover to look for ancient life on red planet

  The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built blasted off for the red planet Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient life.

  World

  Jul 30, 2020
• NASA Mars rover to blast off Thursday, chasing China and United Arab Emirates

  The U.S. space agency's $2.4 billion Perseverance mission is expected to reach Mars next February.

  Science

  Jul 30, 2020
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• Alberta-based scientist part of NASA Mars probe looking for signs of life

  Chris Herd of the University of Alberta is one of the advisers on a Mars probe that is to pick up rocks on the red planet, study them, then seal them away to be picked up on a later mission.

  Science

  Jul 28, 2020
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• Spacecraft gets ready for Mars launch: NASA, China and UAE hope to find signs of life

  The U.S., for its part, is dispatching a six-wheeled rover the size of a car, named Perseverance, to collect rock samples that will be brought back to Earth for analysis in about a decade.

  Science

  Jul 13, 2020