NASA to Launch Mars Rover in 2020

Wiping down hardware is part of the strategy to limit the number of Earth microbes going to the Red Planet for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission. 

This enhanced color image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard Perseverance on April 16, 2023, the 766th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission.

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

A technician points a smartphone camera at NASA's Perseverance rover during an inspection at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The imagery from the phone was seen live by mission engineers watching ...

The Mastcam-Z imager on NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a series of images on July 6 that were stitched together to show a field of boulders deposited in Jezero Crater by a fast-moving ancient r...

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...

This image shows a concept model of NASA's orbiting sample container, which will hold tubes of Martian rock and soil samples that will be returned to Earth through a Mars sample return campaign.

Antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network provide two-way communications with spacecraft exploring the planets.

This image, taken in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on July 23, 2019, shows a close-up of the head of Mars 2020's remote sen...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic of a hill nicknamed “Pinestand.” Scientists think the tall sedimentary layers stacked on top of one another here could have been formed by a deep...

Collecting samples from Mars and bringing them back to Earth is a historic undertaking that starts with the launch of NASA's Mars 2020 rover. 

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...

At a mission control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on May 31, 2022, Mars Perseverance rover team members, including Strategic Mission Manager Pauline Hwang, honored persevering students ...

Members of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team are pictured with the Collier Trophy during the Robert J. Collier Dinner in Washington on June 9, 2022.

This high-resolution image shows one of the six wheels aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, which landed on Feb.18, 2021. The image was taken by one of Perseverance’s color Hazard Cameras (Hazcam...

Visible both in the inset photograph on the upper left and near the center of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover in this illustration is the palm-size dome called the Laser Retroreflector Array (LaRA)....

This video clip of the interactive 3D experience, “Explore with Perseverance,” shows how users can follow the activities of the Mars rover at Jezero Crater. The web tool features a 3D model of the ...

As part of its search for signs of ancient life on Mars, Perseverance is the first rover to bring a sample caching system to the Red Planet that will package promising samples for return to Earth b...

The helicopter was tested on a stand while the cruise stage was tested on the rotation fixture.

This panorama of a location called “Brac” was captured by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover between Nov. 6 and Nov. 17, 2021, the 255th and 265th Martian days, or sols, of ...

This map shows the approximate flight path of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its ninth flight, on July 5.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s fourth flight path is superimposed here atop terrain imaged by the HiRISE camera aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this image with its color camera from beneath the Perseverance rover after the rover had deployed the rotorcraft to the surface of Mars. Image was taken on April ...

The Mars Helicopter and its Mars Helicopter Delivery System were attached to the Perseverance Mars rover at Kennedy Space Center on April 6, 2020. The helicopter will be deployed about two-and-a-ha...

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