NASA’s Perseverance rover has driven 28.1 miles on Mars, surpassing the previous record set by Opportunity and becoming the most traveled vehicle on another planet.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has driven 28.1 miles on Mars, surpassing the previous record set by Opportunity and becoming the most traveled vehicle on another planet.
Twenty-eight miles. Three years. A nuclear-powered golf cart crawling a dead rock, and we’re throwing a parade. Meanwhile the species that built it can’t fix a pothole or agree that a virus is real. Give it another decade — the wheels sieze, the dust wins, and it becomes the most expensive litter on two planets.