Mars 2020

Perseverance’s 70.5 foot wide parachute helped the rover land on Mars after making its way through the Martian atmosphere.

According to NASA, it’s the most zoomed-in and highest frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken on the Martian surface. 

The drive was the same distance as a previous one that was split over three sols, but doing it all in one go created challenges for the rover.

The science collected during this mission will be investigated and reviewed for decades to come, including the return of sample cores collected by Perseverance rover.

The interactive map tracks Perseverance’s path from its landing site at the northern end of its route, to its more recent locations. 

The Perseverance rover was sent to Mars to look for signs of ancient life and collect rock samples to be returned to Earth.

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Pebbles became lodged in Perseverance when it was extracting a sample from a Martian rock nicknamed Issole.

NASA’s team is working on the next, complicated step in Perseverance’s mission: bringing rock samples to earth.

NASA tests OPTIMISM on Earth to prepare the Perseverance Mars Rover for challenges ahead on the Red Planet.

Improving the Soil Property and Object Classification will save NASA scientists time when planning routes for their rovers and in finding important formations.

Three tools on the Perseverance Rover, SuperCam, the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer and PIXL, use Exxelia components.

Perseverance’s Sampling and Caching System uses a rotary-percussive drill and a hollow coring bit at the end of its 7-foot-long robotic arm to extract samples slightly thicker than a pencil.

Mars Ingenuity helicopter makes eleventh flight and continues to successfully scout terrain for Perseverance rover.

Created at NASA’s JPL, the open-source flight software called F Prime powered humanity’s first interplanetary helicopter.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover completed its first drive using its auto-navigation feature, which allows it to avoid rocks and other hazards without input from engineers back on Earth.

NASA is eager to share the technical details of its accomplishments, unlike the typical commercial robotics venture trying to outpace its competitors.

Perseverance Rover captured audio of the Ingenuity flying on Mars, adding another new dimension to the historic Mars 2020 Mission.

Ingenuity could soon embark on a new operation, exploring how aerial scouting could benefit future exploration of Mars and other worlds.

Ingenuity flew faster and farther than any tests that took place here on Earth.

Ingenuity climbed to 16 feet, made a slight tilt, moved sideways, and flew for 51.9 seconds.

A toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called MOXIE converted some of Mars’ carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen.