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NASA's Perseverance Rover Sets New Distance Record
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has set a new distance record, driving over 2,006 sols on the Red Planet. The achievement is celebrated with an official certificate from Guinness World Records and marked by a memorable image captured by one of its navigation cameras.
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NASA
Description Rover tracks and a rocky Martian landscape are shown in this image captured by one of the navigation cameras (navcams) aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on Oct. 11, 2026, the 2,006th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. During that sol’s drive, spanning 299.6 feet (91.31 meters), the
2026-10-13 17:42 UTC
NASA
Description Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars mission team gather in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with a certificate from Guinness World Records marking the rover distance record on the Red Planet. Positioned in front of the team is OPTIMISM (Opera
2026-10-13 17:48 UTC
NASA
Description This infographic illustrates the distances driven by various rovers on the surface of Earth’s Moon and Mars. Of the vehicles shown, the NASA Mars rovers Perseverance and Curiosity are still operational and moving across the surface; the figures shown for those two are distances driven as
2026-10-13 17:56 UTC