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Mars, the Red Planet, is the fourth planet from the sun.

Related Topics: Curiosity Mars Rover Mission, ExoMars, India Mars Orbiter Mission, Mars Rover Opportunity, Maven Mars Mission 

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NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view from its entry, descent and landing camera system as it descended to the surface of Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.

Here's what the Space.com Forum is discussing this week: Mars, memories, and more!

By Mohamed Mohammed

This week, the community was left in awe at all the images and sounds coming to us from NASA's Perseverance rover.

A portion of the panorama captured by the Mastcam-Z camera system aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The full panorama consists of 142 images taken on Feb. 21, 2021.

The top space stories of the week!

By Doris Elin Urrutia

These are the top space stories this week from Space.com.

The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, along with its parachute and back shell, heat shield and descent stage, in the Jezero Crater region of Mars.

Perseverance is a tiny pale speck on Mars in this orbiter's eerie photo

By Mindy Weisberger

A camera on the ExoMars orbiter recently captured a photo showing a very, very tiny Perseverance on Mars.

Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

In photos: Perseverance rover's Mars landing celebrations at NASA and around the nation

By Christine Lunsford

From fist bumps at JPL to Mars donuts at Krispy Kreme and Red Planet billboards in New York City, people went all out for the Perseverance rover's landing.

An artist's concept of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on the Red Planet.

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars: Live updates

By Space.com Staff

Perseverance is set to land inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

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How did NASA's Martian rover come to land in a crater named after a tiny Balkan village?

By Robert Greenberg

The villagers apparently first dismissed this as fake news.

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The Perseverance rover may be on Mars, but there's a lot we already know about from meteorites on Earth

By James Scott

NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars Feb. 18, and has already begun beaming back images.

The wind-carved "Harbor Seal Rock," seen in the first 360-degree panorama taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, shows just how much detail is captured by the camera system.

'Harbor Seal Rock' on Mars and other new sights intrigue Perseverance rover scientists

By Mike Wall

NASA's Perseverance rover has landed in a rich scientific hunting ground, if its first good look around is any guide.

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars is carrying an adorable 'family portrait' of Martian rovers

By Hanneke Weitering

NASA's Perseverance rover has brought the "family portrait" bumper sticker fad to a whole new world.

China's Tianwen-1 Mars rover is pictured at the "Mars yard," a simulated Red Planet testing ground at the China Academy of Space Technology in Beijing, China.

Here's what we know about planetary protection on China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission

By Meghan Bartels

In anticipation of China's first Mars landing attempt, scientists are wondering whether the Tianwen-1 rover may carry Earthly contamination with it to the surface.

A diagram of Tianwen-1's orbital changes.

China's Tianwen-1 lowers its orbit around Mars to prepare for rover landing

By Andrew Jones

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft has trimmed its orbit around Mars to allow the spacecraft to analyze the chosen landing region on the Red Planet.

An artist's concept of an electric Martian dust storm. New research shows that Martian storms may "crackle with electricity," but are probably incapable of generating long bolts of lightning.

Martian dust storms may spark electric purple glow

By Brandon Specktor

Colliding dust particles on Mars probably produce static electricity, a new experiment reveals.

This image from one of the rear Hazard Cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, shows a smoke plume from the crashed descent stage that lowered the rover to the Martian surface. This image was taken within a minute or two after the rover landed on February 18, 2021.

NASA's Perseverance rover watched as its sky crane crashed on Mars (photo)

By Mike Wall

The Perseverance Mars rover's "sky crane" descent stage made the ultimate sacrifice last week, and we now have a photo to memorialize the flying robot's heroic death.

A portion of the panorama captured by the Mastcam-Z camera system aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The full panorama consists of 142 images taken on Feb. 21, 2021.

Perseverance rover snaps gorgeous HD panorama of Mars landing site

By Mike Wall

Perseverance has captured a high-definition, 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago.

A raw image of the Martian surface below the Perseverance rover captured on Feb. 24, 2021, the fourth day of the mission.

Where to find the latest Mars photos from NASA's Perseverance rover

By Elizabeth Howell

NASA's most powerful rover yet is regularly sending back images from the Red Planet, and you can stay updated on the Perseverance mission's latest snapshots.

Space.com senior writer Chelsea Gohd took the first audio recorded on the surface of Mars, captured by NASA's Perseverance rover, and used it in composing a new song about the rover. This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot.

I wrote a song with the first Mars sounds recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover

By Chelsea Gohd

I wrote a song using the first audio ever recorded on the surface of Mars, captured by NASA's Perseverance rover.

NASA Mars 2020 mission members hid a secret message in the parachute that landed Perseverance on the surface of Mars.

Internet sleuths solve secret message on Perseverance rover's Mars parachute

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA hid a secret message on the parachute that landed its Perseverance rover down on the surface of Mars last week.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover acquired this image on Feb. 22, 2021, using its Left Navigation Camera.

Listen to the Mars wind blow in these 1st sounds from the Perseverance rover

By Mike Wall

The recording, which features mechanical whirring from the Perseverance rover and the rustle of a Mars breeze, is the first true audio ever captured on the surface of Mars.

Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars, are seen by the Mars Odyssey orbiter in 2018. A new study suggests the moons are leftovers from a larger, shattered Martian moon.

Were the Mars moons Phobos and Deimos born from another shattered moon?

By Charles Q. Choi

The Mars moons Phobos and Deimos have been born from the remains of a larger moon that shattered.

This is the first panorama image snapped by NASA's Perseverance rover. The image (which is made up of six images) was taken on Feb. 20, 2021.

Behold! The 1st panorama of Mars from the Perseverance rover

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on the surface of Mars last Thursday (Feb. 18), just beamed down its first panoramic image of the Martian surface, the agency reported today (Feb. 22).