NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sets a Mars Driving Record

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame the story as a record-setting drive by Perseverance on Mars, with the New York Times using a broader headline about NASA’s rover setting a driving record and the South China Morning Post emphasizing that it broke an off-planet driving mark. The South China Morning Post alone adds the distance figure of 45.2km and notes the milestone came 5½ years into the mission. The Times extract instead foregrounds advances in self-driving technology and how they help traverse distant worlds.

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