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NASA to Launch Mars Rover in 2020
July 14, 2016
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This is the second color image taken by NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter. It was snapped on the helicopter’s second flight on April 22, 2021 from an altitude of about 17 feet (5.2 meters). Tracks made b...
Second Color Image Taken by Ingenuity
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.
Ingenuity at Two Years on Mars
This panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, was stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Ea...
Perseverance Navcams 360-Degree Panorama
This annotated image of Mars’ Jezero Crater depicts the location of NASA’s Perseverance rover (yellow dot) and the field of view of its Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) camera when it took a series ...
Perseverance to Delta Scarp
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been investigating rocks at the front of the delta in Mars’ Jezero Crater along the path indicated in this annotated image taken by the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Or...
Perseverance Exploring the Front of the Delta
This illustration depicts five major components of the Mars 2020 spacecraft. Top to bottom: cruise stage, backshell, descent stage, Perseverance rover and heat shield.
Mars 2020 Expanded Spacecraft Illustration
This graphic depicts Perseverance’s entry into “Séítah” from both an orbital and subsurface perspective. The lower image is a subsurface “radargram” from the rover’s RIMFAX instrument; the red line...
Perseverance's Traverse, Seen From Above and Below
An illustration of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover deploying its supersonic parachute from its aeroshell as it slows down before landing.
Swoosh Goes the Parachute (Gradient Illustration)
This is the top-down view into a sample tube is the type of image CacheCam provides to the Mars 2020 team.
Mars 2020 CacheCam Sample Tube
Perseverance’s first cored-rock sample is visible inside this titanium sample collection tube in this image taken on Sept. 6, 2021.
Perseverance's First Cored Mars Rock in Sample Tube
This annotated image depicts the ground tracks of NASA's Perseverance rover (white) and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (green) since arriving on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.
Ground Tracks of NASA's Perseverance and Ingenuity
This graphic provides an oblique view of Mars’ Jezero crater -- looking west above the crater floor.
Angle on Jezero Crater (Illustration)
Did you know sound works differently on Mars than it does on Earth? Mars has a different atmosphere than Earth, so sounds on the Red Planet would sound a bit different and be more muffled. NASA’s M...
How Do Sounds on Mars Differ from Sounds on Earth?
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021, the 47th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard...
Ingenuity's Blades Are Released
This GIF shows NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover collecting two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – with a regolith sampling bit on the end of its robotic arm. The samples were collected on D...
NASA's Perseverance Rover Collects Regolith
Ian Clark walks past mission countdown clocks in the Perseverance offices at JPL. Clark was needed on-Lab to supervise the assembly and cleaning of the sample tubes that will hold Martian sediment ...
Countdown to Launch
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 ...
Perseverance Samples 'Berea'
Listen to 16 minutes of raw, unfiltered sounds of the Perseverance Mars rover traveling in Jezero Crater. The noise generated by the interaction of the rover’s wheels and suspension with the surfac...
Sounds of Perseverance Mars Rover Driving – Sol 16 (16 minutes)
NASA has chosen a name for its next Mars rover: Perseverance.
NASA's Latest Mars Rover Has a Name
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)....
Perseverance's Laser Retroreflector (Illustration)
The image on the left is an enhanced-color image taken by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover of a rocky outcrop in the "Séítah" geologic unit of Jezero Crater.
Two Perspectives of 'Séítah Rocks'
This computer simulation shows NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover as it carried out its first drive using its auto-navigation feature, which allows it to avoid rocks and other hazards without input fro...
Computer Simulation of Perseverance's First Autonav Drive
High Bay 1 looks much as it does today in this photo of NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers being tested on Feb. 10, 2003.
Spirit and Opportunity in High Bay 1
B-roll for media and public use. NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flight Update Media Reel
Members of the NASA Mars Helicopter team inspect the flight model (the actual vehicle going to the Red Planet), inside the Space Simulator.
Inspecting Mars Helicopter
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