Stacking spacecraft components on top of each other is one of the final assembly steps…
Browsing: Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is a landmark mission designed to explore the geology of Mars, search for signs of ancient life, and pave the way for future human exploration. Since landing in Jezero Crater in February 2021, Perseverance has been collecting rock and soil samples, analyzing the Martian surface, and testing new technologies like the Ingenuity helicopter and oxygen production from the atmosphere. This page covers the latest scientific discoveries and mission updates from Perseverance, offering a window into Mars’ past and humanity’s future on the Red Planet.
Vaneeza Rupani’s essay was chosen as the name for the small spacecraft, which will mark…
The mission team performed a crucial weight-balancing test on the rover in preparation for this…
New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars’ Jezero crater — the destination of NASA’…
If you could bring something back from Mars to Earth, what would you choose? This…
The team also fueled the rover’s sky crane to get ready for this summer’s history-making…
After the rover was shipped from JPL to Kennedy Space Center, the team is getting…
The Mars 2020 mission involving NASA’s newly named rover — Perseverance — received a substantial…
As part of NASA’s ‘Send Your Name to Mars’ campaign, they’ve been stenciled onto three…
The sample handling system will be collecting and storing Martian rock and soil. Its installation…
NASA chose seventh-grader from Virginia as winner of the agency’s “Name the Rover” essay contest.…
SuperCam is a rock-vaporizing instrument that will help scientists hunt for Mars fossils. NASA is…
Nine finalists have been chosen in the essay contest for K-12 students across U.S. to…
155 students from across the U.S. have been chosen as semifinalists in NASA’s essay contest…
NASA’s next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its…
As NASA continues preparations for the summer 2020 Florida launch of its Mars 2020 rover,…
Fifty years ago today, during their second moonwalk, Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. and Alan Bean…
As any geologist worth his or her salt will tell you, there are rocks, and…