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NASA to Launch Mars Rover in 2020
July 14, 2016
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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.
Mars 2020 Perseverance Launch Panorama
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.
Ingenuity Flight Six Navcam Image
A team of scientists and engineers gives proposals for NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission.
Proposed 2020 Mars Rover Science Goals
The escarpment the science team refers to as “Scarp a” is seen in this image captured by Perseverance rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument on Apr. 17, 2021.
Jezero Crater's 'Scarp A'
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on Mars as viewed by the Perseverance rover’s rear Hazard Camera on April 4, 2021, the 44th Martian day, or sol of the mission.
Ingenuity Deployed on Mars
This graphic provides an oblique view of Mars’ Jezero crater -- looking west above the crater floor.
Angle on Jezero Crater (Illustration)
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has two wind sensors just below its mast, or "head."
Wind Sensors on MEDA
Members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission pose at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the mission, on July 17, 2019.
The Team for Jezero Crater
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover exploring Mars.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #1 (Updated)
The "keys" to NASA's Mars rovers are in the capable hands of the official rover drivers. Learn how they operate the vehicles from millions of miles away in this 60-second video from NASA's Jet Prop...
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In anticipation of the targeted landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Feb. 18, 2021, the Empire State Building in New York began lighting its tower red on Tuesday, Feb. 16, starting at sunset.
Lighting the Town Red
The Perseverance rover successfully collected its first Martian core samples that NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency) plan to return to Earth for further study.
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Collects First Core Samples & Early Science (Media Briefing)
Top center: The plate on the aft crossbeam of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover — seen here on March 16, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center— carries 10,932,295 names submitted by people during NASA'...
Perseverance Rover at Cape
Members of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare to receive the data downlink showing whether the helicopter completed...
Mars Helicopter Team Awaits First Flight Results
Different kinds of carbon-based molecules called organic compounds were viewed within a rock target called "Garde" by SHERLOC, one of the instruments on the end of the robotic arm aboard NASA's Per...
SHERLOC's View of Organics Within Garde Abrasion Patch
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this image overlooking the “Séítah” region using its navigation camera.
Perseverance Looks Out Over 'Séítah'
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...
Mastcam-Z's View of 'Pinestand'
MEDLI2 sensors are installed on the Mars 2020 heat shield and back shell prior that will protect NASA's Perseverance rover on its journey to the surface of Mars.
MEDLI2 Onboard Mars 2020 Spacecraft
NASA's Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, arrives at Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. Its mission: to demonstrate the first powered flight on another planet. Taking to the Martian skies in Spring 2021.
Mars Helicopter – Arriving at the Red Planet, February 2021
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun. It’s the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate observation of a Phobos sol...
Perseverance Rover Sees Solar Eclipse on Mars
The solar panel of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's solar panel as seen by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
Mars Helicopter's Solar Array as Seen by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z
NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission will collect the first samples from another planet (the red one) for return to Earth by subsequent missions.
Preparing the Perseverance Mars Rover to Collect Samples on the Red Planet
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here taking off, hovering and then landing on the Martian surface on April 19, 2021. The Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shot video of...
Enhanced Video Shows Dust During Ingenuity's Flight
Taken Feb. 22, 2021, this image from the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover shows a target for analysis by the rover’s SuperCam instrument.
A Target for Perseverance's SuperCam
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...
Mars Perseverance Rover Launches Successfully
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