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NASA to Launch Mars Rover in 2020
July 14, 2016
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover looks back toward its tracks on July 1, 2021 (the 130th sol, or Martian day, of its mission), after driving autonomously 358 feet (109 meters) – its longest autonomou...
Perseverance Looks Back After a Long Autonomous Drive
A prototype of the Lander Vision System for NASA's Mars 2020 mission was tested in this Dec. 9, 2014, flight of a Masten Space Systems "Xombie" vehicle at Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
Test of Lander Vision System for Mars 2020
Twenty students, along with parents, teachers, and classmates, met virtually with NASA Mars Perseverance team members to celebrate the students' participation in the "You've Got Perseverance" campa...
Persevering Students Receive Messages from Mars (1st Opportunity)
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) payload fairing with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover secured inside arrives at the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canave...
Mars 2020 Payload Fairing Arrives at KSC's Vertical Integration Facility
In this illustration, NASA's Mars 2020 rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars.
Mars 2020 Collecting Sample (Artist's Concept)
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie over a rock nicknamed “Rochette,” on September 10, 2021, the 198th Martian day, or sol of the mission. Two holes can be seen where the rover used its...
Perseverance's Selfie at "Rochette"
The HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to capture this image of NASA’s Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars.
Close-Up of Perseverance on the Martian Surface
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.
Ingenuity's Shadow During Third Flight
Members of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare to receive the data downlink showing whether the helicopter completed...
Ingenuity's Team Waits for Data on Helicopter's First Flight
From left to right: Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands on the Moon; 47 pounds (21.5 kilograms) of samples were brought back to Earth from that mission; the Mars 2020 rover, seen here in an arti...
Sample Return Firsts
This image of Ingenuity was taken on May 23, 2021 – the day after its sixth flight – by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the Perseverance Mars rover.
Ingenuity at Third Airfield
The electricity for NASA's Mars 2020 rover is provided by a power system called a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, or MMRTG. The MMRTG will be inserted into the aft end of the r...
Power for Mars 2020
Made with data recorded by NASA’s Perseverance during a July 15 autonomous drive, this animation shows how the rover used AutoNav to maneuver around the 14-inch (35-centimeter) rock at center-left....
Perseverance AutoNav Avoids a Boulder
Engineers attached NASA's Mars Helicopter to the belly of the Mars 2020 rover on Aug. 27, 2019, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Mars Helicopter Installed on Mars 2020 Rover
About 1000 Viking Orbiter red- and violet-filter images have been processed to provide global color coverage of Mars at a scale of 1 km/pixel.
Global Color Views of Mars
This guided tour of Mars' Jezero Crater from NASA’s Perseverance rover provides a glimpse of the Martian landscape from the rover's highest vantage point yet in the “Séítah” region.
Explore Mars' Jezero Crater with NASA's Perseverance Rover
These images show changes in the dust accumulation over the course of four days on the rim of the collection tube containing Perseverance’s 14th sample. The images were acquired on Oct. 22, Oct. 26...
CacheCam Image of Perseverance's 14th Sample of Martian Rock
This animation shows NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover collecting a rock sample from an outcrop the science team calls “Berea” using a coring bit on the end of its robotic arm. The images were taken b...
Perseverance Cores 'Berea'
This image of Mars was taken from the height of 33 feet (10 meters) by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter during its sixth flight on May 22, 2021.
Ingenuity Looks West
This illustration depicts five major components of the Mars 2020 spacecraft. Top to bottom: cruise stage, backshell, descent stage, Perseverance rover and heat shield.
Mars 2020 Expanded Spacecraft Illustration
NASA’s Perseverance rover deposited the first of several samples onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the 653rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Perseverance Deposits Its First Sample on the Martian Surface
This image shows the finely layered internal structure of a stromatolite from the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia.
Tumbiana Stromatolite
During a Dec. 6, 2022 webinar, students who have overcome academic challenges were honored with personal messages from the Perseverance rover on Mars.
NASA Honors December 2022 You've Got Perseverance Awardees
This video clip shows a 3D printing technique where a printer head scans over each layer of a part, blowing metal powder which is melted by a laser. It's one of several ways parts are 3D printed at...
Video of 3D printing at JPL
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 2020 Perseverance On its Way
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