NASA to Launch Mars Rover in 2020

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover carries two commercial-grade microphones, including this one on its mast. The mast microphone is part of the SuperCam instrument.

This image shows the rock core from “Berea” inside inside the drill of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Each core the rover takes is about the size of a piece of classroom chalk: 0.5 inches (13 mill...

A member of the media interviews mission team member Jessica Samuels inside JPL’s High Bay 1 clean room on Dec. 27, 2019, during Mars 2020 media day.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this enhanced color image of “Hogwallow Flats” on June 6, 2022, the 461st Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

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. 

OPTIMISM faces a doorway of JPL’s Mars Yard garage shortly after arriving there on Oct. 29, 2021.

The actor Brad Pitt (right) shows off his "boarding pass" for Mars with Jennifer Trosper (left), the Mars 2020 project systems engineer, at JPL on Sept. 6, 2019. You can send your name to Mars aboa...

This sequence of images – taken on May 22, 2021, by the navigation camera aboard NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter – depicts the last 29 seconds of the rotorcraft’s sixth flight.

Inside Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Mars 2020 Perseverance team members eagerly watched and waited while the spacecraft performed a complex series of ...

When NASA’s Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, it will seek signs of past microbial life and characterize the planet’s climate and geology.

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.

PIXL breadboard maps of a paleoarchean altered conglomerate with unconformity surface, revealing complex lithology including rounded pyrite, chromite, zircon, K-Al-Cr clay in the fuchsitic mudstone...

Ingenuity’s Mars Helicopter took the image on the left with its navigation camera and the image on the right with its color camera during its 10th Flight, on July 24, 2021.

Peer over the shoulders of our engineers as they build hardware for NASA's Mars 2020 mission. 

In this project, you will build a paper helicopter. Then, just as NASA engineers had to try out different versions of the Mars helicopter before coming up with a final design, you will experiment w...

This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying a Mars rock outrcrop.

Figure 2. This figure demonstrates that the PIXL instrument detects important trace elements (red) at 10’s ppm. Insert: Rb, Sr, Y, Zr are clearly detected due to the lack of interfering excitation ...

Mars 2020 Lift Activities in PHSF at Kennedy Space Center.

This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after its landing on Feb. 18, 2021. 

NASA’s Perseverance rover took these zoomed-in images of a layered outcrop (just below center of   image) nicknamed “Artuby” on June 17, 2021 (the 116th sol, or Martian Day, of its mission), from a...

All these signs of water are very exciting. Why? Because on Earth, almost everywhere there is water, there is life.

Students will use satellite and rover images to learn about the various features and materials that cause color variation on the surface of Mars.

The white speck is NASA’s Perseverance rover in the “South Séítah” area of Mars’ Jezero Crater.

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.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard is seen on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 after being rolled out of the Vertical Integration Faci...