Perseverance
RoverCar-sized rover with a drill and sample-caching system, powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator.
- Launch mass
- 1,025 kg
- Power
- Radioisotope
- Built by
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Designator
- 2020-052A
Image: NASA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 30 Jul 202011:50:00 UTC
- Active for
- 6 years 3 months
- Destinations
- Mars
A NASA mission exploring Jezero crater for signs of ancient microbial life and collecting rock samples for possible return to Earth.
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Spacecraft
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Ingenuity
RotorcraftSmall solar-powered helicopter that made the first powered, controlled flight on another planet and went on to fly 72 times.
- Launch mass
- 1.8 kg
- Size
- 0.2 m × 0.3 m, span 1.2 m
- Power
- Solar
- Built by
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Last contact
- 16 Apr 2024
- End declared
- 25 Jan 2024
Mission details from science.nasa.gov.