NASA's Perseverance rover logs marathon distance on Mars (opens in new tab)

NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled more than 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) on Mars since landing in February 2021, exceeding the standard marathon distance after more than five years of surface operations. A Reddit post summarizing the milestone put the elapsed time at five years and four months. Space.com presented the milestone in an article about whether a human could cover the same distance on Mars, but the available excerpt confirms only the rover's cumulative traverse distance, not a...