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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here in 3D using images taken June 6, 2021, by the left and right Mastcam-Z cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.
Ingenuity Helicopter in 3D
Five decades of successful NASA missions to the Red Planet, 1965-2015.
50 Years of Mars Exploration
A test model of the RIMFAX instrument – aboard the trailer behind the snow mobile – undergoes field testing in Svalbard, Norway.
Testing RIMFAX for NASA's Perseverance Rover
Meet two of the Martian samples that have been collected and are awaiting return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. As of late June 2023, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has collec...
Meet the Mars Samples: Robine and Malay (Samples 6 and 7)
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 30, 2021, the 39th Martian day, or sol, of the miss...
Ingenuity Helicopter is Ready to Drop
Exploration Timeline
Evolving Science Strategies for Mars Exploration
The nose cone containing NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is maneuvered into place atop its Atlas V rocket. The image was taken at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020.
Maneuvering Perseverance
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.
Mars Report: Update on NASA's Perseverance Rover & Curiosity Rover (May 20, 2021)
This graphic depicts the environmental conditions at Jezero Crater from the day NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover landed through Sol 600. The black line shows a climatological model of airborne dust l...
Environmental Plot at Jezero
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 ...
Mars Helicopter Base Station on Perseverance Rover
Buckle up for a Mars tour with rover driver Vandi Verma, and learn how NASA’s rovers have evolved to better explore this alien world.
How to Drive a Mars Rover
Since landing in February 2021, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has sent back hundreds of thousands of images of the Red Planet. After each communication downlink, images go directly to the Persever...
Mars Perseverance Rover: Your Most "Liked" Images 2022
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 successful...
Watching Mars Images Arrive
NASA wants to celebrate students who’ve persevered. From overcoming unexpected challenges and hurdles in getting the Perseverance rover to Mars, and executing operations on the surface, the rover t...
Mars Rover Team to Celebrate Persevering Students
A slice of a meteorite scientists have determined came from Mars placed inside an oxygen plasma cleaner, which removes organics from the outside of surfaces. This slice will likely be used here on ...
Cleaning a Martian Meteorite
The location for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is shown daily in an interactive map called “Where is Perseverance?”. The tool shows the path taken by the rover (marked in white) and key stops alon...
'Where is Perseverance?' Location Map
The robotic arm of NASA’s Perseverance rover is visible in this image used by the AI4Mars project.
AI4Mars: Perseverance's Robotic Arm
A device similar to this one would potentially be placed on the Mars 2020 rover to cache collected rock core samples for a future potential return to Earth.
Engineering Model of a Sample Cache
More than 1,500 individual pieces of carbon fiber, flight-grade aluminum, silicon, copper, foil and foam go into a Mars Helicopter.
This Helicopter is Going to Mars
Preparations are underway to lift the United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover and move it into the Vertical Integration Facility at Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canav...
Mars 2020 Launch Vehicle on Stand
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its WATSON camera, located on the end of its robotic arm, to view the texture of a rock nicknamed “Bettys Rock” on June 22, 2022, the 476th Martian day, or sol, ...
Perseverance's WATSON Views 'Bettys Rock'
NASA’s Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, analyzing the composition of rocks and collecting rock samples in an area long considered by scientists to be a top prospect for ...
NASA's Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Thursday, July 30, 2020, from NAS...
Mars Perseverance Rover Launches Successfully
How can you communicate with Mars spacecraft when the Sun is in the way? Learn more about 'solar conjunction' in this 60-second video.
Mars in a Minute: What Happens When the Sun Blocks our Signal?
Celebrate the completion of the first sample depot – or scientifically curated collection of rock and soil samples – on another world with NASA's Perseverance rover team. The diverse set of scienti...
Perseverance's Backup Rock Sample Tubes Placed on Mars Surface
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The agency established the board in May 2023 to evaluate the technical, cost, and schedule plans prior to confirmation of the mission’s design.
NASA Releases Independent Review's Mars Sample Return Report
A pair of quakes in 2021 sent seismic waves deep into the Red Planet’s core, giving scientists the best data yet on its size and composition.
NASA InSight Study Provides Clearest Look Ever at Martian Core
Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the future.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot
Filled with rock, the sample tube will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that could be considered for a journey to Earth by the Mars Sample Return campaign.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Mars Surface
The mission has concluded that the solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years on the Red Planet.
NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science
The 10 sample tubes being dropped on Mars’ surface so they can be studied on Earth in the future carry an amazing diversity of Red Planet geology.
NASA's Perseverance Rover to Begin Building Martian Sample Depot