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  "id": 15626667,
  "title": "NASA's Perseverance Rover Breaks the Distance Record for Driving Off-World",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/nasas-perseverance-rover-breaks-the-distance-record-for-driving-off",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-19T16:17:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Caltech News",
    "slug": "caltech-news",
    "url": "https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/nasas-perseverance-rover-breaks-the-distance-record-for-driving-off-world"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "On October 11, NASA's Perseverance rover broke the record for the furthest distance traveled by a vehicle on another world. Initially set by NASA's Opportunity rover in 2014, Perseverance has now driven 28.1 miles, navigating—largely autonomously—boulder fields and sandpits on the Red Planet. We chatted with former Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley , the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}