Mission Timeline

Parts of Perseverance are visible beside an area outlined in AI4Mars. 

For the first time, a spacecraft on another planet has recorded the sounds of a separate spacecraft. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its SuperCam microphone to listen to the Ingenuity helicopte...

Inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the second of four solid rocket boosters for the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 5...

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.

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 ...

​After nearly 300 million miles (470 million km), NASA’s Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.

An altimeter chart shows data from the first flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which occurred on April 19, 2021.

This enhanced-color close-up of a rock target called “Cine” was captured by the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on September 17, 2021, the 206th Martian day, or sol, of ro...

In this illustration, NASA’s Perseverance rover explores Mars’ Jezero Crater. The 28-mile-wide (45-kilometers-wide) crater is the location of an ancient lake.

This image shows the rocky outcrop the Perseverance science team calls Berea after the NASA Mars rover extracted a rock core and abraded a circular patch. The image was taken by one of the rover’s ...

This video shows NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover using its Auto-Nav technology to drive 574 feet (175 meters) on Sept. 12, 2021, the 200th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

Scientists from NASA's Mars 2020 mission and the European Space Agency-Roscosmos ExoMars mission are in the Australian Outback to hone research techniques before their missions launch to the Red Pl...

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...

Students took part in a NASA "You've Got Perseverance" event to honor them for overcoming academic challenges.

Planetary protection engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California swab engineering models of the the tubes that will store Martian rock and sediment samples as part of NASA’...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its WATSON camera, located on the end of its robotic arm, to view the texture of a rock nicknamed “Bettys Rock” on June 22, 2022, the 476th Martian day, or sol, ...

This view of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was generated using data collected by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover on Aug. 2, 2023, the 871st Martian day, or s...

This annotated image of South Séítah region of Jezero Crater depicts the planned ground track of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (light blue) during its 15th flight at Mars. The green lines indica...

Interact with this 3D model of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover.

This image looking west toward the Séítah geologic unit on 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. 

This nickel-alloy heat exchanger is among several that were 3D printed for the Mars Oxygen In-situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars ro...

NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has been hard at work using the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) instrument  to help determin...

This image of the parachute that helped deliver NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover to the Martian surface was taken by the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument on April 6, 2022, the 401st Martian day, or sol, ...

NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks at the horizon in this artist’s concept. 

This image of the sedimentary rocks of “Enchanted Lake” was taken by one of the Perseverance rover’s Hazard Avoidance Cameras (Hazcams) near the base of Jezero Crater’s delta on April 30, 2022, the...