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NASA to Launch Mars Rover in 2020
July 14, 2016
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After its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this color image showing the shadow of one of its rotor blades, which was damaged during touchdown.
Ingenuity Spots the Shadow of its Damaged Rotor Blade
This GIF shows the order in which the 142 images that makeup the Mastcam-Z’s first 360-degree panorama were taken. Mastcam-Z is a pair of zoomable cameras on the mast, or “head,” of NASA’s Persever...
How Mastcam-Z's 360-Degree Panorama Was Taken (GIF)
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its abrasion tool to grind down the rock surface at this target, nicknamed “Bellegarde,” on Sept. 29, 2021, the 188th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Abrasion Patch 'Bellegarde'
Color has been added to highlight minerals in this image of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASA's Mars 2020 mission. The green color represents minerals called carbonates, which are es...
Jezero Crater Minerals
This annotated image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the journey NASA’s Perseverance rover has taken and will take in the future as it heads toward Jezero Crater’s delta on Mars...
Perseverance's Traverse From 'Séítah' to Jezero Delta
PIXL, one of seven instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, is equipped with light diodes circling its opening to take pictures of rock targets in the dark. Using artificial intelligence,...
PIXL's Nightlight
NASA's Perseverance rover took this image of the Martian rock nicknamed "Rochette" on Aug. 27, 2021, shortly after it abraded a circular patch known as "Bellegarde."
Abrasion Patch on 'Rochette'
A technician works on the descent stage for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission inside JPL’s Spacecraft Assembly Facility. Mars 2020 is slated to carry NASA’s next Mars rover to the Red Planet in July of 2020.
JPL Tech Works Mars 2020 Descent Stage
This video from NASA’s Perseverance rover shows increasingly close views of an abraded rock at “Wildcat Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater, an area scientists consider one of the best places to search f...
Zooming in on Perseverance Rover's 'Wildcat Ridge' Abrasion Patch
NASA’s Perseverance took a selfie looking down at one of 10 tubes the rover deposited at the sample depot it created in an area within Jezero Crater nicknamed “Three Forks.” This image was taken by...
Perseverance's Three Forks Sample Depot Selfie
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
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-...
Mars 2020/Perseverance Atlas V Fairing
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, July 30, 2020, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Flori...
Mars 2020 Perseverance Launches Off Florida Coast
Members of NASA's Mars 2020 project take a moment after attaching the remote sensing mast to the Mars 2020 rover.
Mars 2020 and Friends
In this image, the second stage of the Black Brant IX sounding rocket separates from the ASPIRE payload. The third and final flight test of the ASPIRE payload was launched from NASA's Wallops Fligh...
ASPIRE Separates from Booster
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.
Mars Perseverance Name Plate Artwork
Will Allen with engineering models of the (clockwise from bottom) Sojourner rover, a Mars Exploration Rover, and Curiosity in JPL's Mars Yard in the early 2000s.
Allen with Engineering Models in the Mars Yard
This artist's concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. NASA's Mars 2020 rover will carry a number of technologies that could make Mars safer and easier to explore for humans.
First Humans on Mars
This annotated image from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows its wheel tracks in Jezero Crater and a distant view of the first potential location it could deposit a group of sample tubes for poss...
Perseverance's View of Possible Future Sample Cache Depot Site
Taken on Aug. 17, 2022, the 531st Martian day, or sol, of the mission shows the back of Coring Bit 2 in the bit carousel NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. A wavy, stringlike piece of foreign object d...
Perseverance Coring Bit
The descent stage holding NASA’s Perseverance rover can be seen falling thorough the Martian atmosphere, its parachute trailing behind, in this image taken on Feb. 18, 2021by the HiRISE camera aboa...
HiRISE Captured Perseverance During Descent to Mars
Two holes are left in the Martian surface after NASA’s Perseverance rover used a specialized drill bit to collect the mission’s first samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – on Dec. 2 and 6.
Perseverance's First 2 Regolith Samples
NASA has been exploring Mars since the 1960s, pushing the frontier of innovation to get to the red planet and discover its secrets.
Spinoffs from Mars
This artist's illustration shows NASA's four successful Mars rovers (from left to right): Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity, and Curiosity. The image also shows the upcoming Mars 2020 rover and a h...
The Evolution of a Martian
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