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Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in Mission Control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on M...
Team Cheers After Perseverance LandingTeam Cheers After Perseverance Landing
February 18, 2021
Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in Mission Control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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This is the first image NASA's Perseverance rover sent back after touching down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. The view, from one of Perseverance's Haza...
Perseverance Rover's First Image from MarsPerseverance Rover's First Image from Mars
February 18, 2021
This is the first image NASA's Perseverance rover sent back after touching down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. The view, from one of Perseverance's Hazard Cameras, is partially obscured by a dust cover.
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In anticipation of the targeted landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Feb. 18, 2021, the Empire State Building in New York began lighting i...
Lighting the Town RedLighting the Town Red
February 17, 2021
In anticipation of the targeted landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Feb. 18, 2021, the Empire State Building in New York began lighting its tower red on Tuesday, Feb. 16, starting at sunset.
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This image shows the finely layered internal structure of a stromatolite from the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia.
Tumbiana StromatoliteTumbiana Stromatolite
February 17, 2021
This image shows the finely layered internal structure of a stromatolite from the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia.
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Madrid’s radio antennas will take the lead in receiving telemetry from the Mars Relay Network during Perseverance’s entry, descent and ...
Antenna for the Deep Space NetworkAntenna for the Deep Space Network
February 16, 2021
Madrid’s radio antennas will take the lead in receiving telemetry from the Mars Relay Network during Perseverance’s entry, descent and landing.
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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 su...
A Suite of Sensors for a Daring DescentA Suite of Sensors for a Daring Descent
February 12, 2021
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.
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Composed of multiple precisely aligned images from the Context Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this annotated mosaic depicts a possible ...
Possible Path for Perseverance RoverPossible Path for Perseverance Rover
January 27, 2021
Composed of multiple precisely aligned images from the Context Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this annotated mosaic depicts a possible route the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover could take across Jezero Crater as it investigates several an...
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This graphic provides an oblique view of Mars’ Jezero crater -- looking west above the crater floor.
Angle on Jezero Crater (Illustration)Angle on Jezero Crater (Illustration)
January 27, 2021
This graphic provides an oblique view of Mars’ Jezero crater -- looking west above the crater floor.
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In this illustration, NASA’s Perseverance rover explores Mars’ Jezero Crater. The 28-mile-wide (45-kilometers-wide) crater is the locat...
Exploring Majestic Jezero Crater (Illustration)Exploring Majestic Jezero Crater (Illustration)
January 27, 2021
In this illustration, NASA’s Perseverance rover explores Mars’ Jezero Crater. The 28-mile-wide (45-kilometers-wide) crater is the location of an ancient lake.
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The bowtie-shaped antenna for the Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) instrument has been mounted on the underside of the Perseve...
Put a Bowtie on It!Put a Bowtie on It!
January 20, 2021
The bowtie-shaped antenna for the Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) instrument has been mounted on the underside of the Perseverance rover. This antenna points down at the hard, frozen ground on Mars and sends the ground penetr...
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An Ingenuity team member inspects NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in one of the space simulation chambers at the agency’s Jet Propulsi...
Bottom of Ingenuity Mars HelicopterBottom of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
January 20, 2021
An Ingenuity team member inspects NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in one of the space simulation chambers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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The Mars Helicopter Base Station, seen here as the upper, gold-colored box near the back of NASA’s Perseverance rover, stores and routes comm...
Mars Helicopter Base Station on Perseverance RoverMars Helicopter Base Station on Perseverance Rover
January 20, 2021
The Mars Helicopter Base Station, seen here as the upper, gold-colored box near the back of NASA’s Perseverance rover, stores and routes communications between NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and mission controllers on Earth.
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The engineering model (EM), an almost identical twin of MOXIE, is used for testing in the lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Cali...
MOXIE Twin During TestingMOXIE Twin During Testing
January 19, 2021
The engineering model (EM), an almost identical twin of MOXIE, is used for testing in the lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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This engineering model of Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument is about to undergo vibration testing in a lab at ...
MOXIE Shakes it UPMOXIE Shakes it UP
January 19, 2021
This engineering model of Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument is about to undergo vibration testing in a lab at the JPL.
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In this image, the gold-plated Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) Instrument shines after being installed inside the Perse...
MOXIE All Tucked InMOXIE All Tucked In
January 19, 2021
In this image, the gold-plated Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) Instrument shines after being installed inside the Perseverance rover.
