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NASA to Launch Mars Rover in 2020
July 14, 2016
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Technicians install a Mastcam-Z high-definition camera in the remote sensing mast that will later go on NASA's Mars 2020 rover.
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To prepare the Perseverance rover for its date with Mars, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission team conducted a wide array of tests to help ensure a successful entry, descent and landing at the Red Planet.
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This panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, was stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Ea...
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Ingenuity’s horizontal position relative to start during Flight One hover.
Ingenuity's Horizontal Position During Flight One Hover
Engineers at JPL install a sensor-filled turret on the end of the rover's seven-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) robotic arm. The image was taken on July 11, 2019.
Attaching Mars 2020's Turret
Before NASA's Mars Perseverance rover landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, the entry, descent, and landing team posed at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with individual ba...
Mars Perseverance Team, Pre-landing
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These annotated images show two views of the “Séítah” geologic unit of Mars’ Jezero Crater.
Diversity of "Séítah" Minerals
Sample radargram of a glacier in Svalbard obtained with the HUBRA radar instrument, a precursor of RIMFAX built by the FFI team.
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This video and audio show the results of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover using its SuperCam microphone to record the sounds of a Martian dust devil – the first time any such recording has been made....
NASA's Perseverance Records a Martian Dust Devil
Video from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captures a closeup view of the 13th flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, on Sept. 4, 2021.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's Flight 13: Zoomed-In View From Perseverance
Download a PDF of the 2013 - 2014 Mars Calendar.
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A device with six mechanical legs, the hexapod is a critical part of the PIXL instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The hexapod allows PIXL to make slow, precise movements to get closer...
PIXL's Hexapod Has Moves
NASA engineers combined three segments from the raw audio file recorded while the Perseverance Mars rover rolled across a section of Jezero Crater on sol 16 of the mission.
Sounds of Perseverance Mars Rover Driving – Sol 16 (90-second highlights)
The Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) microphone can be seen mounted to the top of a black-painted cable bracket in this image taken of the port-side of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Image taken on...
A Microphone for Mars
A tray holding 39 sample tubes – each protected in a gold-colored sheath – is installed in NASA's Perseverance rover in this picture taken at the agency's Kennedy Space Center on May 21, 2020.
Installing Perseverance's Sample Tubes
This enhanced-color image of Mars’ Jezero Crater was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover on April 18, 2021.
Perseverance Captures Image of Kodiak
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will abrade the rock at the center of this image, allowing scientists and engineers to assess whether it would hold up to the rover’s more powerful sampling drill.
Perseverance Team Selects a New Rock to Abrade
Download a PDF of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter Lithograph.
Mars 2020 Rover and Helicopter Lithograph
This set of images shows part of the deployment of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) wind sensors on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, taken by the rover’s Navigation Cameras on Feb. 28...
Perseverance's Weather Sensors Deployed
Scientists use the color swatches on the primary calibration target for Mastcam-Z – a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover – to fine-tune the cameras' settings. Symbols an...
Mastcam-Z's Calibration Target
Photograph showing the prototype RIMFAX antenna attached to a snowmobile during tests in Svalbard, Norway.
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