NASA's Perseverance Mars rover sets distance record

The six-wheeled laboratory has traveled over 28 miles and will keep trucking until at least 2028. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover in this image taken April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has officially traveled 28.10 miles--farther across another planet's surface than any other vehicle in history. Not only that, but the six-wheeled science lab accomplished this impressive feat almost entirely autonomously and in barely a third the time it took the previous recordholder.