NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of the Red Planet, Mars. The rover will spend at least the next two years travelling across Mars in search of potential fossil-bearing rocks. All collected rocks will be stored in a sterilized tube. Perseverance is the ninth NASA spacecraft to reach the surface of the Red Planet
HiRISE captured Perseverance during the descent stage.
Perseverance rover can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere.
First Full-Color Look at Mars
The first color image sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams).
Perseverance’s Wheel
A high-resolution image shows one of the six wheels aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover has landed on Mars.
Perseverance landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.
Mastcam-Z Camera
Zoomable Panoramic Cameras.
MEDA (Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer)
MEDA weather station.
MOXIE (Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment)
Produces Oxygen from Martian CO2.
PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry)
X-ray spectrometer.
RIMFAX (Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Experiment)
Subsurface radar.
SuperCam
Laser-Micro imager.
SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals)
Ultraviolet spectrometer.