Perseverance’s AutoNav system and Ingenuity helicopter scouting allow safe, efficient Mars exploration, enabling record-breaking drives…
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.
Members of the public can now help teach an artificial intelligence algorithm to recognize scientific…
Catch Mars mania as a traveling exhibit visits more than a dozen towns across the…
Perseverance’s PIXL’s ultra-precise X-ray scans, thinner than a human hair, deliver detailed chemical fingerprints of…
NASA’s Perseverance rover captures a geologic feature with details that offer clues to the area’s…
Perseverance’s first published results reveal river-formed sediment layers in Jezero Crater, evidence of an ancient…
Two microphones aboard the six-wheeled spacecraft add a new dimension to the way scientists and…
NASA, along with the European Space Agency, is developing a campaign to return the Martian…
Perseverance is in safe mode during solar conjunction, following pre-loaded plans while Earth communication is…
The findings include signs of flash flooding that carried huge boulders downstream into the lakebed.…
In the short time since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Mars’ Jezero Crater on February…
Pictures from NASA’s latest six-wheeler on the Red Planet suggest the area’s history experienced significant…
The missions will continue collecting data about the Red Planet, though engineers back on Earth…
Scientists tap into an array of imagers aboard the six-wheeled explorer to get a big…
Two interactive web experiences let you explore the Martian surface, as seen by cameras aboard…
The rocks it has analyzed for sample collection are helping the team better understand a…
The rock core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, and will be…
Perseverance will obtain additional imagery of the sample tube before potentially completing the process of…