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Mars 2020 Program

NASAs Mars 2020 mission carries the Perseverance rover, an active astrobiology mission exploring Jezero Crater for signs of ancient microbial life and collecting and caching Martian rock and regolith samples for potential future return to Earth. It launched on July 30, 2020 and landed on February 18, 2021.

Mars 2020 Program
NASA/JPL-Caltech, PIA23920: The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission (Illustration) · NASA/JPL-Caltech imagery is made available under NASA media-usage guidelines and JPL image-use policy: generally reusable for factual educational/informational web pages with the required credit, but no NASA, JPL, or Caltech endorsement may be implied. NASA/JPL/Caltech identifiers and logos are separately protected; this record uses only the mission illustration. · Source

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Aliases
Mars 2020Mars 2020 PerseverancePerseverancePerseverance rover
Domains
spaceflight
Name
Mars 2020 Program
Status
active
Types
explorationscienceresearch

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Description
NASAs Mars 2020 mission carries the Perseverance rover, an active astrobiology mission exploring Jezero Crater for signs of ancient microbial life and collecting and caching Martian rock and regolith samples for potential future return to Earth. It launched on July 30, 2020 and landed on February 18, 2021.
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Parent Program
Participants
Start Date
2020-07-30

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Creation Time
August 13, 2026 at 12:35:18 UTC
Updated Time
August 22, 2026 at 15:44:45 UTC
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Official Urls
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance-rover/