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Supercam's Mars Meteorite Aboard the ISS
This fragment of a Martian meteorite, seen floating inside the International Space Station, is now part of a calibration target for SuperCam, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
December 8, 2020
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SHERLOC's Calibration Target Aboard the Perseverance Mars Rover
The calibration target for SHERLOC, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, features a slice of Martian meteorite, plus spacesuit materials, including helmet-visor material that doubles as a geocache.
December 8, 2020
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Mastcam-Z's Calibration Target
Scientists use the color swatches on the primary calibration target for Mastcam-Z – a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover – to fine-tune the cameras' settings. Symbols and mottos relevant to the mission are included around the target's perimeter.
December 8, 2020
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Components of MOXIE (Illustration)
An illustration of MOXIE (Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment) and its components.
November 24, 2020
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Components of MOXIE (Illustration)
An illustration of MOXIE and its components. An air pump pulls in carbon dioxide gas from the Martian atmosphere, which is then regulated and fed to the Solid OXide Electrolyzer (SOXE), where it is electrochemically split to produce pure oxygen.
November 24, 2020
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Engineers Lower MOXIE into Perseverance
Engineers lower MOXIE into the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover.
November 24, 2020
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Perseverance Rover's SkyCam
SkyCam is a sky-facing camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. As part of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA), the rover's set of weather instruments, SkyCam will take images and video of clouds passing in the Martian sky.
November 13, 2020
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MEDA's Wind Sensor Springs Out
One of two wind sensors springs out of the mast on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. These sensors are part of Perseverance's weather instrumentation, called MEDA.
November 13, 2020
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Mars 2020 Showing Some Inflight Heat
An electrical cable can be seen snaking its way along insulation material in this in-flight image of the interior of the Mars 2020 spacecraft on its way to the Red Planet. The picture was assembled using three images taken by the Perseverance rover's rear left Hazcam during a systems check on Oct. 19, 2020.
November 10, 2020
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Perseverance Rover at Halfway Point
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover reached its halfway point – 146.3 million miles (235.4 million kilometers) – on its journey to Jezero Crater on Oct. 27, 2020, at 1:40 p.m. PDT (4:40 EDT).
October 27, 2020
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MEDLI2 Onboard Mars 2020 Spacecraft
MEDLI2 sensors are installed on the Mars 2020 heat shield and back shell prior that will protect NASA's Perseverance rover on its journey to the surface of Mars.
October 22, 2020
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X-ray Image of 3D-Printed MOXIE Part
This X-ray image shows the interior of a 3D-printed heat exchanger in Perseverance's MOXIE instrument. X-ray images like these are used to check for defects within parts.
October 19, 2020
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Mars 2020 Expanded Spacecraft Illustration
This illustration depicts five major components of the Mars 2020 spacecraft. Top to bottom: cruise stage, backshell, descent stage, Perseverance rover and heat shield.
October 16, 2020
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RIMFAX Location on NASA's Perseverance Rover (Illustration)
Highlighted in blue in this visualization, the RIMFAX instrument's antenna is externally mounted underneath the MMRTG (the rover’s nuclear battery) on the back of Perseverance.
October 8, 2020
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Testing RIMFAX for NASA's Perseverance Rover
A test model of the RIMFAX instrument – aboard the trailer behind the snow mobile – undergoes field testing in Svalbard, Norway.
October 8, 2020
