"Mars didn't want to make it easy for anyone to get to the top of this ridge." NASA's Perseverance rover took a break from its Mars mountaineering expedition recently to survey its old stomping ...

The rover has so far spent about two months negotiating a steep route out of the Jezero Crater with the aim of cresting the rim in early December. At roughly the halfway point, the rover stopped Sept.

The images the robot captured late in September from high above the Jezero Crater presents a striking vista of a sparse, rocky landscape marked by the rover's winding tracks as it slowly makes its ...