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  1. Mission Overview: NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

    NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is heading to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life, collect samples for future return to Earth and help pave the way for human exploration. The rover will carry with it several technology demonstrations including a helicopter, which will attempt humanity's first powered flight on another planet. Perseverance has a new set of science instruments ...

  2. Perseverance Rover Components

    Engineers redesigned the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover's wheels to be more robust, due to wear and tear the Curiosity rover wheels endured while driving over sharp, pointy rocks. Perseverance's wheels are narrower, with a bigger diameter and thicker aluminum. Perseverance has six wheels, each with its own motor.

  3. Perseverance (rover)

    Perseverance, nicknamed Percy, [2] is a car -sized Mars rover designed to explore the Jezero crater on Mars as part of NASA 's Mars 2020 mission. It was manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched on July 30, 2020, at 11:50 UTC. [3] Confirmation that the rover successfully landed on Mars was received on February 18, 2021, at 20: ...

  4. Curiosity Rover Science

    NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured a partial image of a geologic feature called "Greenheugh Pediment." In the foreground is the crusty sandstone cap that stretches the length of the pediment, forming an overhanging ledge in some parts. At center is the "clay-bearing unit," a region with a unique story to tell about the history of water on ...

  5. NASA's Perseverance rover begins key search for life on Mars

    More than 15 months after landing in Jezero Crater on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has finally begun its hunt for ancient life in earnest. On 28 May, Perseverance ground a 5-centimetre-wide ...

  6. By the Numbers

    The Mars Science Laboratory rover got its name, "Curiosity," from student Clara Ma (as seen in this photo with the rover) who as a sixth grader entered an essay contest to name the next Mars rover. Ma's essay beat out 9,000 others and she not only got to name the rover, but she also got a special tour of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ...

  7. NASA Essay Contest Winner: Naming Curiosity Mars Rover 'Changed My Life

    Students have just over one week more to enter NASA's Name the Rover Essay Contest. While they put the finishing touches on their essays (due Nov. 1, 2019), meet the most recent naming contest winner, Clara Ma. Find out what Ma is up to more than 10 years after submitting her winning name for the Mars rover now known as Curiosity and why she says the experience changed her life.›

  8. Sounds of Mars: Ingenuity Essay Excerpt

    Alabama student Vaneeza Rupani reads from her essay, which inspired NASA to name the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity. This audio clip has been adjusted to simulate what it might sound like in the atmosphere of Mars. Scientists on the Perseverance rover team took into account the three key variables of atmospheric temperature, density and chemistry to […]

  9. Mars 2020 Perseverance Landing Press Kit

    The car-size Perseverance rover is about 10 feet long (not including the robotic arm arm), 9 feet wide, and 7 feet tall (about 3 meters long, 2.7 meters wide, and 2.2 meters tall). It weighs about 2,260 pounds (1,025 kilograms) on Earth. The Perseverance rover and other major Mars 2020 mission hardware (such as the cruise stage, descent stage ...

  10. Mars Is More Beautiful Than Ever

    By Marina Koren. NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS. July 6, 2022. When Corrine Rojas comes into work, Mars is waiting for her. She drives to the office, grabs a cup of coffee, and then pulls up the ...

  11. Autonomous robotics is driving Perseverance rover's progress on Mars

    The NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter landed in the Jezero crater on 18 February 2021. This paper discusses the autonomous capability that has enabled the mission to achieve its prime objective to select, document, core, and deploy a high-value sample collection on the surface of Mars within one Mars year of landing (one Mars year is 687 Earth days).

  12. How NASA Built Its Mars Rovers

    NASA is not alone in advancing rover technology. The European Space Agency, in a joint mission with NASA, is building a next-generation Mars rover, called ExoMars, for launch in 2018. And other ...

  13. Mars Rovers Article, Mars Exploration Information, Ground Truth Facts

    NASA's plans include a new, sharper-eyed orbiter to arrive in 2006, a lander that would dig for near-surface ice close to the north pole in 2008, and another rover mission, the Mars Science ...

  14. Mars Science Laboratory: Curiosity Rover

    The car-size rover is about as tall as a basketball player and uses a 7 foot-long arm to place tools close to rocks selected for study. Curiosity's large size allows it to carry an advanced kit of 10 science instruments. It has tools including 17 cameras, a laser to vaporize and study small pinpoint spots of rocks at a distance, and a drill to ...

  15. Virginia Middle School Student Earns Honor of Naming NASA's Next Mars Rover

    All 155 semifinalists' proposed rover names and essays have been stenciled onto a silicon chip with lines of text smaller than one-thousandth the width of a human hair and will be flown to Mars aboard the rover." NASA's Perseverance rover is a robotic scientist weighing just under 2,300 pounds (1,043 kilograms).

  16. Countdown to Mars: How NASA involved kids in its Perseverance rover

    The Mars 2020 rover Perseverance will arrive at the Red Planet this week. From NASA's "Name the Rover" essay competition to the Mission to Mars Student Challenge, the space agency has encouraged ...

  17. A mathematical journey to Mars

    March 1, 2021. The landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars is an excellent catalyst for a discussion with students about the nature of Mathematics. It is a chance to inspire curiosity and wonderment and to do so through a mathematical lens. The video of a small, fragile craft descending towards the surface of an alien planet, immediately ...

  18. Mars Exploration Rover

    The Mars Exploration Rover was designed to be stowed atop a Delta II rocket. Each spacecraft consists of several components: Rover: 185 kg (408 lb) ... The Spirit and Opportunity rovers were named through a student essay competition. The winning entry was by Sofi Collis, a third-grade Russian-American student from Arizona.

  19. Essay on Curiosity Mars Rover

    The landing at Mars. The rover was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2100 and landed on Mars on August 6, 2012. The landing of the rover at Mars was so stressful employees of NASA dubbed it "seven minutes of terror". The rover swapped over to a landing configuration while the attached spacecraft lowered the rover under the ...

  20. Essay on Mars for Students

    The exploration of Mars has been an important part of the space exploration programs of several countries. The first successful flyby of Mars was by Mariner 4 in 1965. Since then, numerous spacecraft have been sent to explore Mars, including the Viking missions in the 1970s and, more recently, the Mars Rover missions.

  21. Video: China's Chang'e-6 Far Side of the Moon Launch

    The first to visit the far side of the moon, in 2019, was Chang'e-4, which included a rover to explore the moon's Von Karman crater. China remains the only nation to send a lander to the other ...

  22. Essay Winner's Signature on NASA's Curiosity Rover

    Original (4395×2792) (jpg) (6.37 MB) NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery. Essay Winner's Signature on NASA's Curiosity Rover.

  23. NASA Invites Students to Name Mars 2020 Rover

    NASA is recruiting help from students nationwide to find a name for its next Mars rover mission. Starting Tuesday, Aug. 27, K-12 students in U.S. public, private and home schools can enter the Mars 2020 Name the Rover essay contest. One grand prize winner will name the rover and be invited to see the spacecraft launch in July 2020 from Cape ...