NASA’s Perseverance rover captures its own wheel tracks during its first drive on Mars, on March 4, 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on Thursday. The rover snapped photos of its wheel tracks in the Martian dirt. Now NASA engineers and scientists are plotting Perseverance's route to an ancient river delta. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. NASA's Perseverance rover left its footprints on Mars on Thursday after going for its first drive.