Mission Timeline

Stitched together from multiple images, this mosaic of the Jezero Crater’s river delta was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover on Apr. 17, 2021.

This illustration depicts the mechanism and conceptual research targets for an instrument named Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals, or SHERLOC.

NASA's Perseverance rover undergoes a 10-day test in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at JPL. The image was taken on Nov. 16, 2019.

This illustration depicts the interior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.

Perseverance Mars Rover Deputy Project Manager Rich Welch and Mission Lead Beth Dewell, spoke with middle- and high-school students during a live webinar from the rover’s mission control at NASA’s ...

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.

This image of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at the rim of Belva Crater was taken by the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during the rotorcraft’s 51st flight on April 22, 2023, the 772nd Martian ...

A large dust storm on Mars, nearly twice the size of the United States, covered the southern hemisphere of the Red Planet in early January 2022, leading to some of NASA’s explorers on the surface h...

This shows the rim of Jezero Crater as seen in the first 360-degree panorama taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.

NASA’s Perseverance rover fires up its descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface in this illustration. 

United Launch Alliance hoists its Centaur upper stage atop the Atlas V rocket that will launch NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover for the Mars 2020 mission.

Taken by Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z instrument, this video – narrated by Perseverance Project Scientist Ken Farley – features an enhanced-color composite image that pans across Jezero Crater’s delta ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover, now called Perseverance, undergoes processing at a payload servicing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 14, 2020.

MOXIE engineer Asad Aboobaker of JPL explains how the instrument works in this video interview.

Use this interactive virtual landing packet to learn more about the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing and download all the printable resources available for landing.

This fragment of a Martian meteorite, seen floating inside the International Space Station, is now part of a calibration target for SuperCam, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars ...

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.

In February 2020, NASA’s Perseverance Rover began its long journey to Mars by first traveling across the United States. 

This annotated graphic depicts the orientation of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover during the 17th flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on Dec. 5, 2021. The green dot on the rover indicat...

This illustration ‘cracks the code’ for the Product Identification Number inscribed on the right side of the Mars 2020 mission name plate, located on the robotic arm of the Perseverance rover. 

Mars 2020 Lift Activities in PHSF at Kennedy Space Center.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take this panorama of a proposed landing site for the Mars Sample Return lander that would serve as part of the campaign to brin...

This pair of images shows two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA’s Perseverance rover from an outcrop called "Wildcat Ridge" in Mars’ Jezero Crater.

After the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover captured Ingenuity’s third flight on April 25, the frames of the video that was stitched together were then reprojected to optimize viewi...

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.