Mission Timeline

The aeroshell containing NASA’s Perseverance rover guides itself towards the Martian surface as it descends through the atmosphere in this illustration. Hundreds of critical events must execute per...

Bob Balaram and Teddy Tzanetos share stories of how the Mars helicopter came to be, and transport us on Ingenuity’s flights through dusty Martian skies.

Tour the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and see the Mars 2020 mission under construction. Project System Engineer Jennifer Trosper explains the hardware being buil...

Engineers install the SuperCam instrument on Mars 2020's rover. This image was taken on June 25, 2019, in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

This engineering model of Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument is about to undergo vibration testing in a lab at the JPL.

What secrets could we unravel by studying Mars samples in state-of-the-art labs on Earth? Scientists around the globe are eager to find out.

Seen from below, NASA's he Mars 2020 Perseverance rover bears a plaque to the right of its middle wheel. Featuring a snake-entwined rod to symbolize healing and medicine, it commemorates the impact...

Mars 2020 Lift Activities in Payload Hazardous Serviceing Facility (PHSF) at the 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 artist concept shows the location of the RIMFAX instrument on the next rover scheduled to launch for Mars.

A crane is attached to the second of four solid rocket boosters for the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket to lift it into the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cap...

This image of NASA's Mars 2020 rover was taken on July 23, 2019 in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on the belly of the Perseverance rover, ready to be dropped off at the helicopter’s deployment location. 

Illustration of the route Mars 2020 takes to the Red Planet, including several trajectory correction maneuvers (TCMs) to adjust its flight path.

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

On Dec. 17, 2019, engineers took NASA’s next Mars rover for its first spin.

This annotated image from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows how its SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Minerals) instrument investigates a rock...

Aaron Yazzie and others explain how, by scooping dirt and drilling rocks, rovers are digging deeper into the mysteries of Mars.

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...

This illustration depicts the aluminum plate with initials of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which designed and built the Mars Perseverance rover. This plate is mounted on the left front of the ...

Eleven 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...

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.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill within Jezero Crater, on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the miss...

Jennifer Trosper, Mars Perseverance project manager, leads rover team members at JPL in a round of applause for students who were honored through the “You’ve Got Perseverance” campaign for overcomi...

This enhanced-color image of Mars’ Jezero Crater was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover on April 18, 2021.