Mission type | Mars exploration |
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Operator | |
COSPAR ID | 2020-052A |
SATCAT no. | 45983 |
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Spacecraft properties | |
Manufacturer | JPL |
Launch mass | 3,649 kg (8,045 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 30 July 2020, 11:50:00 UTC |
Rocket | Atlas V 541 (AV-088) |
Launch site | Cape Canaveral, SLC-41 |
Contractor | United Launch Alliance |
Mars rover | |
Spacecraft component | Perseverance |
Landing date | 18 February 2021 |
Landing site | Octavia E. Butler Landing, Jezero 18°26′41″N 77°27′03″E / 18.4447°N 77.4508°E |
Distance driven | 23.73 km (14.75 mi) as of 3 January 2024[update] [1] |
Mars aircraft | |
Spacecraft component | Ingenuity |
Landing date | 3 April 2021 (Deployed from Perseverance)[2] |
Landing site | Helipad at Wright Brothers Field near Octavia E. Butler Landing, Jezero[3] 18°26′41″N 77°27′04″E / 18.44486°N 77.45102°E |
Distance flown | 17.242 km (10.714 mi) in 72 flights[1] |
NASA and JPL insignias (Perseverance) JPL mission insignia (Ingenuity) Large Strategic Science Missions Planetary Science Division |
Mars 2020 is a NASA mission that includes the rover Perseverance, the now-retired small robotic helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Exploration Program. Mars 2020 was launched on an Atlas V rocket at 11:50:01 UTC on July 30, 2020,[4] and landed in the Martian crater Jezero on February 18, 2021, with confirmation received at 20:55 UTC.[5] On March 5, 2021, NASA named the landing site Octavia E. Butler Landing.[6] As of 8 November 2024, Perseverance has been on Mars for 1323 sols (1359 total days; 3 years, 264 days).[7][8][9][10][11] Ingenuity operated on Mars for 1042 sols (1071 total days; 2 years, 341 days) before sustaining serious damage to its rotor blades, possibly all four, causing NASA to retire the craft on January 25, 2024.[12][13]
Perseverance is investigating an astrobiologically relevant ancient environment on Mars for its surface geological processes and history, and assessing its past habitability, the possibility of past life on Mars, and the potential for preservation of biosignatures within accessible geological materials.[14][15] It will cache sample containers along its route for retrieval by a potential future Mars sample-return mission.[15][16][17] The Mars 2020 mission was announced by NASA in December 2012 at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Perseverance's design is derived from the rover Curiosity, and it uses many components already fabricated and tested in addition to new scientific instruments and a core drill.[18] The rover also employs nineteen cameras and two microphones,[19] allowing for the audio recording of the Martian environment. On April 30, 2021, Perseverance became the first spacecraft to hear and record another spacecraft, the Ingenuity helicopter, on another planet.
The launch of Mars 2020 was the third of three space missions sent toward Mars during the July 2020 Mars launch window, with missions also launched by the national space agencies of the United Arab Emirates (the Emirates Mars Mission with the orbiter Hope on July 19, 2020) and China (the Tianwen-1 mission on July 23, 2020, with an orbiter, deployable and remote cameras, lander, and Zhurong rover).
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