On the way to Krokodillen: One of NASA's Perseverance rover's navigation cameras captured tracks left by the rover leading away from an area called Witch Hazel Hill on May 13, 2025, the 1503rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Perseverance rover has reached a new region on Mars that may contain some of the Red Planet's most ancient and fascinating samples.
In February 2021, Perseverance landed in the 28-mile (45-kilometer) wide Jezero Crater with the goal of searching for signs of life on Mars and collecting dozens of samples for future return to Earth.
Over four years of operation, the car-sized rover has covered vast areas and has now reached another new location: a plateau of rocky outcrops that the mission team has named Krokodillen, after a mountain range on Prins Karls Forland Island in Norway. (“Krokodillen” means “crocodile” in Norwegian.)
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