18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
... of rock and soil, and store them on the surface for potential return to Earth by a future mission. "The Mars 2020 rover is the first step in a potential multi-mission campaign to return carefully selected and sealed samples of Martian rocks...
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
..., but will collect the material left by NASA’s Mars 2020 rover and will transfer them to an ascent vehicle, where...Red planet, and returned to Earth by a separate spacecraft. The Mars 2020 rover is on the search for, amongst other things, signs of past...
13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... - something NASA is generally good at – and once safely ensconced on the ground, it will be the Mars 2020 rover’s job to take the helicopter to a suitable location ready for its first historic flight. This foray into ...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
... 2.4 million miles (3.9 million kilometers) left to travel in space, NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is less than 48 hours away from attempting to land the agency’s fifth rover on the Red Planet. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
...’s Mars 2020 Perseverance spacecraft – the latest and most complex mission to the Red Planet – lands successfully on Mars after...and all the challenges that that goes with landing a rover on Mars, plus the challenges of covid. What an accomplishment.” ...
23 February 2021
NASA releases first audio recording of Mars and stunning landing video of Perseverance
...from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles never-before-seen views of a spacecraft landing on another planet, as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars on 18 February. A microphone on the rover also has...
