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Mission overview: NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

Jul 27, 2020

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 and the ability to “self-drive” on the Martian surface.

The Perseverance rover is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 41 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as early as July 30. It is set to land at Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

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How do you build a Mars Rover?

Jul 27, 2020

How will Perseverance help with future human exploration? And how will the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter work?

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is creating a lot of excitement. The new rover will look for signs of past microbial life, cache rock and soil samples, and prepare for future human exploration.

As part of the assembly, test, and launch operations team, NASA engineer Michelle Colizzi explains the Perseverance rover’s mission. She details how the drill will collect core samples and outlines plans to test a new technology to produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere.

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Perseverance Mars Rover pre-launch news conference

Jul 27, 2020

Learn more about the planned July 30 launch of our Mars 2020 rover from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas V 541 rocket, featuring:

- Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator

- Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA Associate Administrator

- Omar Baez, Launch Director, NASA Launch Services Program

- Matt Wallace, Mars 2020 Deputy Project Manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

- Tory Bruno, President and CEO, United Launch Alliance

- Jessica Williams, 45th Space Force Weather Officer

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Perseverance Mars Rover Mission engineering & science briefing

Jul 27, 2020

Our Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover will search for signs of ancient life beyond Earth. Find out more about the mission from the scientists and engineers on the team.

Lori Glaze, Planetary Science Division Director, NASA HQ
Jennifer Trosper, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (remote)
Farah Alibay, Second engineer about mobility, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ken Farley, Project Scientist, California Institute of Technology
Tanja Bosak, Sedimentology and Astrobiology Science Team Member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Mars rover showdown! Perseverance vs. NASA's '90s rover

Jul 28, 2020

The high-tech Mars 2020 rover is about to launch into space (complete with its own helicopter). But how does this one-tonne beast compare to the original, pint-sized rover we sent to Mars in 1997?

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Rocket Ranch Episode 23: Mars 2020: in the midst of a pandemic

Jul 28, 2020

The launch team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has persevered through a global pandemic to get a Mars rover named Perseverance to the launch pad on time. Learn more about the cloud of doubt the virus cast over the Mars 2020 mission and how NASA overcame it.

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Episode 9 Part 2: Mars Perseverance Rover Will Look for Signs of Ancient Life

Jul 28, 2020

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How the Perseverance Mars Rover will help NASA return Mars samples to Earth

July 29, 2020

When our Perseverance Mars rover launches on July 30, it's set to be the first leg of a series of sample return missions in the search for evidence of life beyond Earth. Watch as experts from both NASA and the European Space Agency discuss how Perseverance will collect samples for future return to Earth.

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How NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover's technology will help astronauts explore Mars

July 28, 2020

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries technology that helps to lay the way forward for human exploration of the Red Planet. Scientists from NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology explain.

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What’s the status of our Perseverance Rover launch to Mars?

July 29, 2020

Reporting from the Countdown Clock at NASA's Kennedy Space Center — America's spaceport — officials from NASA will provide a #CountdownToMars update for the July 30 launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch window is approximately two hours, with a launch opportunity every five minutes.

Watch LIVE to see NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, and astronaut Zena Cardman share their insights about the mission.