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Interactive Virtual Launch Packet

June 24, 2020

Click here to view the full, interactive virtual launch packet, or download the PDF.

Use this interactive virtual launch packet to learn more about the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launch and download all the printable resources available for launch.

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A technician points a smartphone camera at NASA's Perseverance rover during an inspection at Kennedy Space Center in Florida
Smartphone Walkdown
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...
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Perseverance’s Sampling and Caching System Camera, or CacheCam, captured this time-lapse series of images of the rover’s 14th rock-core sample.
CacheCam Image of Perseverance's 14th Sample of Martian Rock
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This is the first color image of the Martian surface taken by an aerial vehicle while it was aloft. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured it with its color camera during its second successful flight test on April 22, 2021. At the time this image, Ingenuity was 17 feet (5.2 meters) above the surface.
First Aerial Color Image of Mars
MEDA's Wind Sensor 2 seems to be practicing its deployment as if already on Mars. 
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MEDA's Wind Sensor 2 seems to be practicing its deployment as if already on Mars.
MEDA Reaches Out Into the Wind
Students Alex Mather, at left, and Vaneeza Rupani, stand near the countdown clock at the News Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 28, 2020.
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Students Alex Mather, at left, and Vaneeza Rupani at KSC.
Naming Contest Winners at Kennedy Space Center
Håvard Grip, chief pilot of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, documents the details of each flight in the mission’s logbook,The Nominal Pilot’s Logbook for Planets and Moons, after each flight. Ent...
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Håvard Grip, chief pilot of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, documents the details of each flight in the mission’s logbook, The Nominal Pilot’s Logbook for Planets and Moons, after each flight. Entries for Flights 9 and 10 are seen here.
Ingenuity Logbook Entries
This image of the "South Séítah" region of Jezero Crater was taken by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 11th flight on Aug. 4.
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Ingenuity captured the Perseverance rover in an image taken during its 11th flight at Mars on Aug. 4.
'Séítah' From 39 Feet Up
When NASA’s Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, it will seek signs of past microbial life and characterize the planet’s climate and geology.
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When NASA’s Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, it will seek signs of past microbial life and characterize the planet’s climate and geology.
NASA Mars 2020 Rover Sample Collection Animation
An illustration of the planet Mars, highlighting NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover mission.
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Mars Perseverance Rover (Gradient Illustration)
The 152 images that make up this mosaic of Belva Crater were taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on April 22, 2023, the 772nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission...
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The 152 images that make up this mosaic of Belva Crater were taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on April 22, 2023, the 772nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Perseverance Takes in View at Belva Crater
About 1000 Viking Orbiter red- and violet-filter images have been processed to provide global color coverage of Mars at a scale of 1 km/pixel.
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About 1000 Viking Orbiter red- and violet-filter images have been processed to provide global color coverage of Mars at a scale of 1 km/pixel.
Global Color Views of Mars
This simulation shows the motions the robotic arm on NASA’s Perseverance rover carried out during its first two-hour checkout on Mars. This simulation does not run in real-time.
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This simulation shows the motions the robotic arm on NASA’s Perseverance rover carried out during its first two-hour checkout on Mars. This simulation does not run in real-time.
Simulation of Perseverance Arm Movement
Intriguing Martian rocks surround NASA’s Perseverance rover in this panorama showing an ancient river delta, made from images captured by the Mastcam-Z camera system. 
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Intriguing Martian rocks surround NASA’s Perseverance rover in this panorama showing an ancient river delta, made from images captured by the Mastcam-Z camera system.
Detailed Panorama of Mars' Jezero Crater Delta
Meet one of the Martian samples that has been collected and is awaiting return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. As of late July 2023, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has collecte...
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Meet one of the Martian samples that has been collected and is awaiting return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. As of late July 2023, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has collected and sealed 20 scientifically selected samples inside pristine tubes. The next stage is to get them back for study.
Meet the Mars Samples: Kukaklek (Sample 16)
This animation shows the data collected on a Mars 2020 sample tube using a computerized tomography (CT) scanner. Engineers working on the sample tubes used the 3D imagery to better understand the t...
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This animation shows the data collected on a Mars 2020 sample tube using a computerized tomography (CT) scanner. Engineers working on the sample tubes used the 3D imagery to better understand the tubes' internal structure.
CT Scan of Mars Sample Tube
This pair of images shows two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA’s Perseverance rover from an outcrop called "Wildcat Ridge" in Mars’ Jezero Crater.
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This pair of images shows two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA’s Perseverance rover from an outcrop called “Wildcat Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater.
Perseverance Rock Cores From 'Wildcat Ridge'
This map of the Red Planet shows Jezero Crater, where NASA's Mars 2020 rover is scheduled to land in February 2021. Also included are the locations where all of NASA's other successful Mars mission...
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This map of the Red Planet shows Jezero Crater, where NASA's Mars 2020 rover is scheduled to land in February 2021. Also included are the locations where all of NASA's other successful Mars missions touched down.
Map of NASA's Mars Landing Sites
This 360-degree mosaic from the “Airey Hill” location inside Jezero Crater was generated using 993 individual images taken by the Perseverance Mars rover’s Mastcam-Z from Nov. 3-6. The rover remain...
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This 360-degree mosaic from the “Airey Hill” location inside Jezero Crater was generated using 993 individual images taken by the Perseverance Mars rover’s Mastcam-Z from Nov. 3-6. The rover remained parked at Airey Hill for several weeks during solar conjunction.
Perseverance's 360-Degree View From 'Airey Hill'
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Mars Launch Overview
NASA's Perseverance Rover Launches to Mars
This 3D view of geologic feature the Mars Perseverance rover team calls “Raised Ridges” was generated from data collected by Ingenuity during its 10th flight at Mars, on July 24, 2021.
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This 3D view of geologic feature the Mars Perseverance rover team calls “Raised Ridges” was generated from data collected by Ingenuity during its 10th flight at Mars, on July 24, 2021.
Jezero Crater's ‘Raised Ridges' in 3D
Twenty students, along with parents, teachers, and classmates, met virtually with NASA Mars Perseverance team members to celebrate the students' participation in the "You've Got Perseverance" campa...
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Twenty students, along with parents, teachers, and classmates, met virtually with NASA Mars Perseverance team members to celebrate the students' participation in the "You've Got Perseverance" campaign.
Persevering Students Receive Messages from Mars (2nd Opportunity)
An engineering model of NASA's Mars 2020 rover makes tracks during a driving test in the Mars Yard, an area that simulates Mars-like conditions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Cali...
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An engineering model of NASA's Mars 2020 rover makes tracks during a driving test in the Mars Yard, an area that simulates Mars-like conditions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Mars 2020 Makes Tracks for the Red Planet in the Mars Yard
Members of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team are pictured with the Collier Trophy during the Robert J. Collier Dinner in Washington on June 9, 2022.
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This image shows members of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team with the Collier Trophy at the Robert J. Collier Dinner in Washington on June 9, 2022.
NASA's Mars Helicopter Team Members With Collier Trophy
This image shows part of the “Cratered Floor Fractured Rough” geologic unit where Perseverance rover will hunt for a suitable first sample target.
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This image shows part of the “Cratered Floor Fractured Rough” geologic unit where Perseverance rover will hunt for a suitable first sample target.
An Expanse for Perseverance to Explore
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This was the helicopter’s fifth flight, and the first time the helicopter flew to a new landing site. It was airborne a total of 108 seconds.
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