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Jul 30, 2020 · 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. As of October 2024, the rover has driven over 30 kilometers (18.65 miles), and has collected 24 samples of rock and regolith as well as one air sample.
- Introduction
Introduction - Mars 2020: Perseverance Rover - NASA Science
- Perseverance Rover
Perseverance Rover - Mars 2020: Perseverance Rover - NASA...
- Perseverance Rover Location Map
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater, an area...
- Mission
Mission - Mars 2020: Perseverance Rover - NASA Science
- Introduction
- Perseverance is searching for signs of ancient life. Previous NASA missions have discovered evidence that Mars once hosted running water before becoming a frozen desert.
- The rover is landing in a place with a high potential for finding these signs of past microbial life. Terrain that is interesting to scientists can be challenging to land on.
- Perseverance is also collecting important data about Mars’ geology and climate. Context is everything. Mars orbiters have been collecting images and data from Jezero Crater from about 200 miles (322 kilometers) above, but finding signs of ancient life on the surface requires much closer inspection.
- The Perseverance rover embodies the NASA – and the scientific – spirit of overcoming challenges. Getting the spacecraft to the launch pad during a pandemic, searching for signs of ancient life, collecting samples, and proving new technologies are no easy feats.
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will land on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. Perseverance is the most sophisticated rover NASA has ever sent to the Red Planet, with a name that embodies NASA’s passion, and our nation’s capability, to take on and overcome challenges.
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater, an area with an ancient delta, on Feb. 18, 2021. Scroll and pan around this map to see the rover’s latest location and traverse path, as it seeks signs of ancient life and collects samples of Mars rock and regolith (broken rock and dust) for potential future return to Earth.
- 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...
Dec 21, 2020 · This reel depicts key events during entry, descent, and landing that will occur when NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars February 18, 2021. In the span of about seven minutes, the spacecraft slows down from about 12,100 mph (19,500 kph) at the top of the Martian atmosphere to about 2 mph (3 kph) at touchdown in an area called Jezero Crater.
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Jan 6, 2021 · This illustration shows NASA’s Mars 2020 spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Feb. 18, 2021.
