Mission Timeline

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is using its self-driving capabilities as it treks across Jezero Crater seeking signs of ancient life and gathering rock and soil samples for planned return to Earth. 

Cuando se mudó a los Estados Unidos desde Colombia, la ingeniera de NASA-JPL Diana Trujillo no hablaba inglés. Pagó la universidad limpiando casas, aprendió inglés y ahora está ayudando a enviar el...

The aeroshell containing NASA’s Perseverance rover guides itself towards the Martian surface as it descends through the atmosphere in this illustration. Hundreds of critical events must execute per...

Seeking signs of past life on Mars would be a multi-step process, according to the Science Definition Team for NASA's Mars 2020 mission.

The Mars Helicopter, visible in lower center of the image, was attached to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover at Kennedy Space Center on April 6, 2020. 

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with NASA's Mars 2020 mission with the Perseverance rover rolls from the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-...

Women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pose for a photo in mission control in honor of Women in Science Day.

Interact with this 3D model of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover.

NASA's Perseverance rover has been on the surface of Mars since February of 2021, joining NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been studying the Red Planet since 2012.

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.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover looks back at its wheel tracks on March 17, 2022, the 381st Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

The single-engine Centaur upper stage for the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is being transported to the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Comp...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover’s mast. This is one still frame from a sequence captured...

This annotated image indicates the locations of NASA’s Perseverance rover (lower right), as well as the “Kodiak” butte (lower left) and several prominent steep banks known as escarpments, or scarps...

Another view of NASA's Perseverance rover attached to a spin table during a test of its mass properties at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The image was taken on April 7, 2020.

This illustration of the Mars 2020 spacecraft in interplanetary space was generated using imagery from NASA's Eyes on the Solar System. The image is from the mission's midway point between Earth an...

The Mars 2020 navigation team celebrates Perseverance’s nominal, or successful, trajectory correction maneuver in the Mission Support Area at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

This annotated image highlights potential routes that NASA’s Perseverance team is considering in September 2022 for the rover to drive from the front of an ancient river delta to the rim of Jezero ...

This is an image of artwork etched onto the titanium plate that is mounted on the lower section of the Mars Perseverance rover’s 7-foot robotic arm.

PIXL's sensor head before being integrated with the robotic arm at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Members of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare to receive the data downlink showing whether the helicopter completed...

Five decades of successful NASA missions to the Red Planet, 1965-2015.

The twin Mastcam-Z cameras, shown with a pocket knife for scale, are assembled and ready for testing in this photo taken at Malin Space Science Systems, in San Diego, California.

A team of scientists and engineers gives proposals for NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission.

Attached to the Perseverance Mars rover, this 3-by-5-inch (8-by-13-centimeter) aluminum plate commemorates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pays tribute to the perseverance of healthcare wor...