AFTER ALL, THEY DID NAME IT PERSEVERANCE: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover breaks interplanetary driving record — and it’s far from done.

In a milestone achievement, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has broken the record for most miles driven on a world beyond Earth.

On Oct. 11, Perseverance hit 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers) traveled on Mars, breaking the record previously held by NASA’s Opportunity rover which went 28.06 miles (45.16 km). It took Oppy 14 years to cover all that ground; Perseverance, by contrast, has been on Mars for just 5.5 years.

The new record is far from the end of Perseverance’s journey, however; the mission team thinks the rover could eventually more than double the distance it’s already traveled.

“Our original design was only planned to last for [about] 20 kilometers of driving,” Mark Maimone, a rover driver at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, told Space.com.

Impressive.