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Keeping Track of Mars Perseverance Landing
Perseverance Mars rover guidance and controls operations lead Swati Mohan studied data on monitors in Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.
February 18, 2021
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Cheering for Perseverance Landing
Inside a mission support area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Mars 2020 Perseverance team members displayed their joy as the spacecraft successfully completed a complex series of steps to safely touch down on the Martian surface.
February 18, 2021
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Excitement and Suspense on Landing Day
Engineer Mallory Lefland experienced the tension and relief shared by the team on Mars 2020 Perseverance landing day, on Feb. 18, 2021.
February 18, 2021
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Watching Mars Images Arrive
Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover team watch in Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California as the first images arrive moments after the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.
February 18, 2021
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Team Cheers After Perseverance Landing
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.
February 18, 2021
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Perseverance Rover's First Image from Mars
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.
February 18, 2021
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Lighting the Town Red
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.
February 17, 2021
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Tumbiana Stromatolite
This image shows the finely layered internal structure of a stromatolite from the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia.
February 17, 2021
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Antenna for the Deep Space Network
Madrid’s radio antennas will take the lead in receiving telemetry from the Mars Relay Network during Perseverance’s entry, descent and landing.
February 16, 2021
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A Suite of Sensors for a Daring Descent
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.
February 12, 2021
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Possible Path for Perseverance Rover
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 ancient environments that may have once been habitable.
January 27, 2021
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Angle on Jezero Crater (Illustration)
This graphic provides an oblique view of Mars’ Jezero crater -- looking west above the crater floor.
January 27, 2021
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Exploring Majestic Jezero Crater (Illustration)
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.
January 27, 2021
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Bottom of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
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.
January 20, 2021
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Mars Helicopter Base Station on Perseverance Rover
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.
January 20, 2021
