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NASA's Perseverance Rover began its long journey to Mars on July 30, 2020 by successfully launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a ULA Atlas V rocket. It began its seven-month journey to the Red Planet, landing there on Feb. 18, 2021. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Cruise: The Trip to Mars.
- Mission
Overview. The Mars 2020 mission spacecraft, carrying the...
- Mars 2020: Perseverance Rover
Perseverance Mars Rover Drive Path Animation. This animated...
- Mission
- First Images
- Checkout
- Helicopter Flight Testing
- Surface Operations
One of Perseverance’s first activities in surface mode is to take a pair of pictures with the engineering cameras – known as the Hazard Cameras, or Hazcams – on the front and rear of the rover. Hazcams have clear covers over their lenses to protect them from dust that gets kicked up during landing. The first two images – front and rear Hazcam image...
Perseverance’s first Martian day on the surface of the Red Planet is known as Sol 0. A sol is a Martian day, which is 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35.244 seconds. (Perseverance team members tend to refer to sols rather than Earth days during operations since the rover will be working during the Martian day and “sleeping” during the Martian night.) The pri...
After mission controllers have determined that rover systems are functioning as desired, Perseverance will find a flat area to serve as a helipad for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter technology demonstration. In the first months after landing, if all goes well, the rover will deploy Ingenuity in the center of this area and drive a safe distance (about...
At the end of these experimental helicopter flights, Perseverance will begin its surface operations phase, when the team will carry out its ambitious science mission: searching for signs of ancient microbial life, characterizing the climate and geology of Mars, and collecting carefully selected and documented samples for future return to Earth. Fin...
Perseverance Mars Rover Drive Path Animation. This animated orbital-map view shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken since its February 2021 landing at Jezero Crater to July 2024, when it took its “Cheyava Falls” sample.
Feb 16, 2021 · The Mars 2020 mission, including the Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter, will land on Mars on February 18, 2021. A first on a Mars mission, the Sample Caching System included on Perseverance will collect and store short cores of Martian rocks and soils destined for future return to Earth and study with advanced instrumentation.
Feb 15, 2021 · After a 293-million-mile trek across the expanse since its July 2020 launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the upgraded rover is slated to land on the Red Planet at 3:55 p.m. EST...
- Emre Kelly
- Space Reporter
Feb 17, 2021 · The rover is scheduled to land on Mars Thursday at 3:55 p.m. ET. Perhaps some of the hardest work was readying the mission during its final stages before launch in July during a pandemic.
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Jan 5, 2021 · This illustration shows the events that occur in the final minutes of the nearly seven-month journey that NASA’s Perseverance rover takes to Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Feb. 18, 2021.
