India, Oct. 13 -- NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has broken the world record for driving the most distance than any vehicle ever has on the surface of another world.
On Sunday, the rover's odometer reached 28.10 miles, eclipsing the record of 28.06 miles set by NASA's Opportunity rover, which explored Mars from 2004 to 2018. Perseverance reached the mark on the 2,006th Martian day, or sol, of its mission, covering in five and a half years a distance that took Opportunity to cover almost 15 years.
The milestone came as Perseverance traveled toward an area called "Idubi" through the region off the western rim of Jezero Crater nicknamed "Lac de Charmes," where the rover is investigating what may be some of the oldest terrain ever explored in...