A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

It would take a million of them to equal the same mass as the Mars Helicopter and more than six billion to measure up the ground-based rover that will deploy the chopper. Even though the study ...

The rover will be capable of drilling down into the surface of Mars and collecting rocks at a depth of 6.6 feet (2 meters), which it will then analyze in an onboard laboratory, according to ESA.