Perseverance Mars rover
Uncrewed spacecraftActive
Mars astrobiology and sample-caching rover
Perseverance Mars launched at about 2,260 pounds (1,025 kilograms) for the rover and operated under NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It carried mastcam-z, supercam, pixl, sherloc, rimfax, meda, moxie, sample-caching system, microphones, and ingenuity helicopter. Perseverance documented Jezero's volcanic floor, lake sediments, delta, and later impact history, collected sealed rock and regolith cores, demonstrated oxygen production and autonomous driving, recorded Martian sound, and deployed Ingenuity for 72 pioneering powered flights.
No reviewed vehicle image is available for Perseverance Mars rover.
Uncrewed spacecraft dossier
Flight profile
- Launch
- July 30, 2020
Vehicle record
- Flights
- 1 documented mission
- First flight
- Mars 2020 Perseverance
- Final flight
- Mars 2020 Perseverance
- Arrival
- Landed February 18, 2021
- Operator
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Launch vehicle
- Atlas V 541
- Mass
- about 2,260 pounds (1,025 kilograms) for the
- Destination
- Jezero Crater, Mars
- Payload
- Mastcam-Z, SuperCam, PIXL, SHERLOC, RIMFAX, MEDA, MOXIE, sample-caching system, microphones, and Ingenuity helicopter
- Outcome
- Active