Mars 2020

Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission by NASA's Mars Exploration Program including the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter drone. It was launched on 30 July 2020 at 11:50 UTC,^[1] and landed in the Jezero crater on Mars on 18 February 2021.

It investigated to see if living organisms lived on Mars and if people can live there.^[2]^[3] The Ingenuity helicopter crashed in January 2024.

Mars 2020 Media

A faithful recreation of NASA's insignia for the Mars 2020 mission. The insignia, designed in a hexagonal shape, features the Perseverance rover to be used in the mission, six coloured vials in the bottom left, and "Mars 2020" printed in plain upper-caps text in the bottom right. The rover, depicted in silhouette ag
A faithful recreation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's second insignia for the Mars 2020 mission, introduced in March 2020. The insignia is a simple red circle with a depiction of the Perseverance rover built with simple square blocks, alongside a star shining in the sky. The
Sample tubes being loaded into the Perseverance rover
Campaign plans for 2021–2022
Animation of Mars 2020's trajectory from 30 July 2020 to 20 February 2021
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A piece of fabric from the wing of the 1903 Wright Flyer airplane of the Wright brothers is attached under the solar panel of the Ingenuity helicopter.
The Jezero crater delta on Mars, where the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter landed. Clays are visible as green in this false color CRISM / CTX image.
Jezero Crater Formation by asteroid impact
Mars 2020 launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, at 11:50 UTC on 30 July 2020
Perseverance recording of the ambient noise on Mars, modified to remove the background sounds of the rover