Mars 2020 Perseverance Fact Sheet

This 360-degree stereo anaglyph of the terrain surrounding NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was taken on the rover's 171st sol on Mars (July 17, 2004).

Download a PDF of the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Landing Press Kit.

This illustration shows an astronaut on Mars, as viewed through the window of a spacecraft. 

This image features an exhumed crater in Meridiani Planum, an equatorial region where the rover Opportunity has been exploring the Martian surface since January 2004. An exhumed crater is one that ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity captured this stereo view using its Navigation Camera (Navcam) after a 17-foot (5.3 meter) drive on 477th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Dec. 8, 2013)...

This annotated image of Mars’ Jezero Crater depicts the ground track and waypoints of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s planned 11th flight, scheduled to take place no earlier than Aug. 4, 2021.

​​Members of NASA's Mars 2020 project take a moment after attaching the remote sensing mast to the Mars 2020 rover.

This stereo view from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a vista across Endeavour Crater, with the rover's own shadow in the foreground. The view spans 216 com...

A member of the media interviews mission team member Jessica Samuels inside JPL’s High Bay 1 clean room on Dec. 27, 2019, during Mars 2020 media day.

What does NASA do to get a rover ready for Mars? JPL’s paint shop does a thousand different paint jobs a year. And while every piece of spacecraft that comes through the shop is important, one head...

This is an artist's model of an early Mars - billions of years ago - which may have had oceans and a thicker atmosphere.

A screen view from OnSight, the 2018 award-winning software developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in collaboration with Microsoft.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover imaged these drifting clouds on May 12, 2019, the 2,405th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, using its Navigation Cameras (Navcams).

During a team meeting for NASA’s Opportunity rover, Ben Cark of the Space Science Institute talks about his experiences working on NASA’s longest-lived Mars surface explorer. 

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew over this dune field in a region of Jezero Crater nicknamed “Séítah” during its ninth flight, on July 5, 2021. A portion of the helicopter’s landing gear can b...

Two images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity rover depicting the change in the color of light illuminating the Martian surface since a dust storm engulfed Gale Crater. The left ima...

Anniversary artwork of NASA Viking 1 and Viking 2 Orbiters and Landers. Infographic text: Viking 40 Year Anniversary. 1976. #viking40

Members of the NASA Mars Helicopter team attach a thermal film to the exterior of the flight model of the Mars Helicopter. 

The Mars 2020 spacecraft follows an entry, descent, landing process similar to that used in landing the Mars rover, Curiosity.

In time-lapse video bunny-suited engineers remove the inner layer of protective foil on NASA's Mars 2020 rover after it was moved to a different building at JPL for testing.

On Sept. 7 NASA’s ASPIRE project broke a record when its rocket-launched parachute deployed in 4-10ths of a second - the fastest inflation of this size chute in history.

This animation shows a simulation of the response of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to the system identification, or “Sys-ID,” process.

“Selfie” of the Curiosity rover with inset showing the SAM instrument prior to installation on the rover. 

Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth -- and a ready analog for Mars' rugged, arid terrain.

These images show changes in the dust accumulation over the course of four days on the rim of the collection tube containing Perseverance’s 14th sample. The images were acquired on Oct. 22, Oct. 26...