Mars 2020 (Perseverance)

Mission overview

Mars 2020 delivered the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter to Jezero crater to seek signs of ancient life and cache samples.

Outcome & discoveries

Caching rock cores for a future return; Ingenuity achieved the first powered flight on another world.

• ★Organic matter in Jezero crater delta deposits
• ★First powered, controlled flight on another planet (Ingenuity)

Mission profile

Spacecraft

Scientific instruments

• Mastcam-ZMultispectral, stereoscopic, zoomable images of the Martian surface
• SuperCamRock and soil chemistry and mineralogy by remote laser analysis
• MOXIEProduction of oxygen from the Martian carbon-dioxide atmosphere

Knowledge connections

• Target ofMars
• Mission includesPerseverance
• Mission includesIngenuity
• Operated byNASA
• Part of programMars Exploration Program
• Launched byAtlas V
• Launched fromCape Canaveral Space Force Station
• Mission targetMars
• CapturedPerseverance on Mars — Jezero Crater
• Associated withJezero Crater
• Associated withIngenuity Makes the First Powered Flight on Another World
• Associated withFirst Powered Flight on Another World
• Associated withOxygen Production
• Associated withChemical Biosignature
• Associated withGeological Biosignature
• Associated withSample Handling & Curation

Related missions

Sources

Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.

• NASA JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory / Solar System Dynamics

  Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.