NASA to Launch Mars Rover in 2020

Engineers and technicians working on NASA's Mars 2020 mission prepare spacecraft components for acoustic testing in the Environmental Test Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ...

How can you communicate with Mars spacecraft when the Sun is in the way? Learn more about 'solar conjunction' in this 60-second video.

NASA's Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, arrives at Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.  Its mission: to demonstrate the first powered flight on another planet.  Taking to the Martian skies in Spring 2021.

Sending a rover to the Red Planet is more than just 3…2…1… Liftoff! It takes 100s of people and years of hard work to get a spacecraft from Earth to Mars.

NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft undergoes examination prior to an acoustic test in the Environmental Test Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

The first flight of an advanced supersonic parachute system for Mars 2020. The test took place on Oct. 4, 2017 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia.

In time-lapse video bunny-suited engineers remove the inner layer of protective foil on NASA's Mars 2020 rover after it was moved to a different building at JPL for testing.

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...

This graphic depicts Perseverance’s entry into “Séítah” from both an orbital and subsurface perspective. The lower image is a subsurface “radargram” from the rover’s RIMFAX instrument; the red line...

When NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter attempts its first test flight on the Red Planet, the agency's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will be close by, as seen in this artist's concept.

The shadow of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter can be seen in these images taken by its black-and-white navigation camera during its third flight on April 25, 2021.

Perseverance scientist Olivia Sun was excited to see certain geologic features in imagery of Jezero Crater’s “Delta Scarp” because they provide evidence of a watery past.

This computer simulation shows NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover taking its first selfie, on April 6, 2021. The point of view of the rover’s WATSON camera is included to show how each of the 62 images...

This composite image of Jezero Crater’s “Delta Scarp” was generated using data from the Perseverance rover’s Remote Microscopic Imager and Mastcam-Z camera.

This 2016 image comes from computer-assisted-design work on NASA's 2020 Mars rover. The design leverages many successful features of NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in 2012, but it add...

​​The shipping container carrying NASA's Mars 2020 rover is readied for loading aboard an Air Force C-17 transport plane at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California, on Feb. 11, 2020.

Taken on March 5, 2021, this color-calibrated image from a Navigation Camera aboard NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover shows tracks from the rover’s first drive (darker marks in the foreground) an...

This video clip of the interactive 3D experience, “Explore with Perseverance,” shows how users can follow the activities of the Mars rover at Jezero Crater. The web tool features a 3D model of the ...

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

Perseverance snapped this view of a hill called “Santa Cruz” on April 29, 2021. About 20 inches (50 centimeters) across on average, the boulders in the foreground are among the type of rocks the ro...

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...

Landing a spacecraft on Mars is one of the trickiest things we do. This 60-second video explains how it's done, and the three landing systems we use at the Red Planet.

Vaneeza Rupani, the 11th grader who named the Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity), at home in Northport, Alabama.

When the NASA Perseverance Mars rover lands on the Red Planet, it will be caching rock samples for a future mission to collect and return to Earth. For Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist at NASA-JP...

Perseverance rover team members applauded 15 students who have overcome academic obstacles, at a live video event in a mission control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on May 31, 2022.