Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover - NASA Mars

Mars Helicopter to Begin New Demo Phase

Mars Helicopter to Begin New Demo Phase

Ingenuity Completes Its Fourth Flight

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Ingenuity Completes Its Fourth Flight

Perseverance Extracts First Oxygen From Mars

Perseverance Extracts First Oxygen From Mars

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Mission Name: Mars 2020
Rover Name: Perseverance
Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.
Launch: July 30, 2020
Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars
Tech Demo: The Mars Helicopter is a 30-day technology demonstration, hitching a ride on the Perseverance rover.
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See the latest weather report from the Perseverance rover at Jezero Crater.

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Mars Weather Report

Missed your chance to fly with Perseverance? Sign up to send your name with a future Mars mission.

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See the latest images the Perseverance rover sends back here. Vote for your favorite to become "Image of the Week."

Artist's concept of the Perseverance Rover

This web experience lets you hear what a person might sound like on the Red Planet. You can even record your own greeting and hear how you'd sound on Mars.

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A Month of Ingenuity: The Mars Helicopter

Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity

The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology demonstration to test powered flight on another world for the first time over a 30-Martian-day experimental window.

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Meet the Martians

Meet some of the team members behind the Perseverance rover

Sarah Milkovich
Science Data Scientist

Parker Abercrombie
User Interface Developer

Yumi Iwshita
Robotics Technologist

Farah Alibay
Systems Engineer

Sami Sahnoune
Data Scientist

Grace Tan-Wang
Mission Systems
Deputy Chief Engineer

Dennis Wai
Robotics Technologist

Dania Lazo
Electrical Engineer

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Entering the Martian Atmosphere (Illustration)

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Explore the Landing Site

Mars 2020 Map

Explore Jezero Crater using this interactive map that lets you zoom in and see where the Perseverance rover is located.

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Latest News

read the article 'NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter to Begin New Demonstration Phase'

April 30, 2021NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter to Begin New Demonstration Phase

read the article 'NASA Sets Briefing to Discuss Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Next Steps'

April 29, 2021NASA Sets Briefing to Discuss Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Next Steps

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