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This annotated image was taken during the landing of the Perseverance rover on Feb. 18, 2021. Using binary code, two messages were encoded in the parachute: DARE MIGHTY THINGS and the GPS coordinat...
Mars Decoder Ring
Taken Feb. 22, 2021, this image from the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover shows a target for analysis by the rover’s SuperCam instrument.
A Target for Perseverance's SuperCam
This artist concept shows the Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, which will travel with NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the ...
Mars Helicopter (Artist's Concept)
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover was prepared for encapsulation in the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing on June 18, 2020.
Mars 2020 Perseverance Encapsulation
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 ...
Possible Path for Perseverance Rover
A crane lifts the rocket-powered descent stage away from NASA's Mars 2020 rover after technicians tested the pyrotechnic charges that separate the two spacecraft.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Tests Descent-Stage Separation
An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18, 2021.
Perseverance Touching Down on Mars (Illustration)
NASA has named the landing site of the agency’s Perseverance rover after the science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, as seen in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Experiment camera aboar...
Welcome to 'Octavia E. Butler Landing'
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Successfully Completes First Flight
This artist's rendering depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover, with its robotic arm extended.
Mars 2020 Rover - Artist's Concept
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Mars 2020 mission with the Perseverance rover lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at 7:50 a.m. EDT on July 30, 2020.
Ignition! Bound for Mars
Download a PDF of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Fact Sheet in Spanish.
Mars 2020 Perseverance Fact Sheet (Spanish)
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 4...
Perseverance Begins Rolling Out to Launch Pad
Members of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory react to data showing that the helicopter completed its second flight on the Red Planet on April 22, 2021.
Ingenuity's Team Reacts to Data Showing Helicopter Completed Its Second Flight
This is an artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during its cruise phase between launch and final approach to Mars.
Mars Science Laboratory Spacecraft During Cruise, Artist's Concept
This image of the rocket-powered descent stage sitting on to of NASA's Perseverance rover was taken in a clean room at Kennedy Space Center on April 29, 2020.
Perseverance Rover Gets in Launch Shape
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 4...
Reflection of Perseverance on Launch Pad
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.
X-ray Image of 3D-Printed MOXIE Part
NASA's Perseverance rover is moved during a test of its mass properties at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The image was taken on April 7, 2020.
Lifting Perseverance Rover
Animations for media and public use. NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will be the first aircraft to fly in a controlled way on another planet.
NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Animations
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is heading to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life, collect samples for future return to Earth and help pave the way for human exploration. The rov...
Mission Overview: NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
A United Launch Alliance worker is inside the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida on June 9, 2020.
Affixing a Rocket
A portion of a cored-rock sample is ejected from the rotary percussive drill on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The imagery was collected by the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument on Jan. 15, 2022.
Perseverance Expels Rock Fragments
This is the top-down view into a sample tube is the type of image CacheCam provides to the Mars 2020 team.
Mars 2020 CacheCam Sample Tube
An illustration of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover deploying its supersonic parachute from its aeroshell as it slows down before landing.
Swoosh Goes the Parachute (Gradient Illustration)
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A new study based on recordings made by the rover finds that the speed of sound is slower on the Red Planet than on Earth and that, mostly, a deep silence prevails.
What Sounds Captured by NASA's Perseverance Rover Reveal About Mars
Meet the project manager of the first rocket to launch from the surface of another planet, the Mars Ascent Vehicle.
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The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round trip to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program.
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Caltech researchers used the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to determine that surface water left salt minerals behind as recently as 2 billion years ago.
NASA's MRO Finds Water Flowed on Mars Longer Than Previously Thought
