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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record on Mars

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 20 40 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 13 Oct 12:23 UTC · NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record on Mars 13 Oct 18:19 UTC · NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record on Mars

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 1 HEADLINE

  1. 13 Oct, 12:23 UTC

    NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record on Mars

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Jezero Crater · 4 outlets
  • Rainbow Falls · 4 outlets
  • Southern California · 3 outlets
  • Red Planet · 3 outlets
  • Perseverance Mars · 2 outlets
  • Mark Maimone · 2 outlets

Entered the story later

  • 12.4 miles driving · from 16 Oct 17:56, 3 outlets
  • Steven Lee · from 16 Oct 17:56, 3 outlets
  • Cheyava Falls · from 16 Oct 17:56, 3 outlets
  • Soviet Union · from 16 Oct 17:56, 3 outlets
  • 90% its total · from 16 Oct 17:56, 2 outlets
  • 600,000 measurement points · from 16 Oct 17:56, 2 outlets
  • Gale Crater · from 21 Oct 09:22, 2 outlets
  • Gene Cernan · from 21 Oct 09:22, 2 outlets

Figures reported with different numbers

  • measurement points: 600,000 (2 from 16 Oct 17:56) → 20 (1 from 21 Oct 09:22)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.