NASA
NASA Science
Mars Exploration Program
Skip Navigation
menu
Images
Mission Timeline
July 09, 2013
Credits
NASA/JPL-Caltech
ENLARGE
[51, 180]
Related
Members of NASA’s Mars 2020 project install the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) into the chassis of NASA’s next Mars rover.
This Is One Mars Rover With MOXIE
This video from NASA’s Perseverance rover shows increasingly close views of an abraded rock at “Wildcat Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater, an area scientists consider one of the best places to search f...
Zooming in on Perseverance Rover's 'Wildcat Ridge' Abrasion Patch
This image of NASA's Mars 2020 rover was taken on July 23, 2019 in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Mars 2020 Rover on Stand
Engineers and technicians working on the Mars 2020 spacecraft at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, look on as a crane lifts the rocket-powered descent stage away from the ro...
NASA Mars 2020 Rover Separation Test
This sunset on Mars was captured by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using its Mastcam-Z camera system on Nov. 9, 2021, the 257th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Mastcam-Z's First Martian Sunset
This photomontage shows each of the sample tubes deposited by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at the “Three Forks” sample depot, as viewed by the WATSON camera on the end of the rover’s robotic arm.
WATSON's Photomontage of Mars Sample Depot
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on Mars as viewed by the Perseverance rover’s rear Hazard Camera on April 4, 2021, the 44th Martian day, or sol of the mission.
Ingenuity Deployed on Mars
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Celebrates 50 Flights
This image of the official pilot’s logbook for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flights – the “Nominal Pilot’s Logbook for Planets and Moons” – was taken at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Souther...
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Pilot's Logbook
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill within Jezero Crater, on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the miss...
Mastcam-Z Views 'Santa Cruz' on Mars
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster for NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is lifted up in the Vertical Integration Facility at Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in F...
Mars 2020 Launch Vehicle Lifted Up
Members of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team stand next to the Collier Trophy during the Robert J. Collier Dinner in Washington on June 9, 2022.
Ingenuity Team With Collier Trophy
The full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover has put some dirt on its wheels at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Perseverance Twin Drives Into the Mars Yard
Engineers install the SuperCam instrument on Mars 2020's rover. This image was taken on June 25, 2019, in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Installing SuperCam on the Mars 2020 Rover
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of “Bettys Rock” using one of its front hazard cameras on June 20, 2022, the 474th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Perseverance Views 'Bettys Rock'
From its landing site, “Octavia E. Butler Landing,” NASA’s Perseverance rover can see a remnant of a fan-shaped deposit of sediments known as a delta (the raised area of dark brown rock in the midd...
Perseverance View of the Delta in Jezero Crater
This illustration depicts three different of models of NASA’s solar-powered Mars helicopter.
NASA's Mars Helicopters: Present, Future, and Proposed
This pair of images shows two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA’s Perseverance rover from an outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater. The image of...
Rock Cores From 'Skinner Ridge'
OPTIMISM faces a doorway of JPL’s Mars Yard garage shortly after arriving there on Oct. 29, 2021.
OPTIMISM Ready for Testing
Members of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare to receive the data downlink showing whether the helicopter completed...
Mars Helicopter Team in Mission Control
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers and rotates over Jezero Crater during its second experimental flight test on April 22, 2021. The footage was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager, a pair of zoom...
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Second Flight
The Mars 2020 mission is facing the most challenging landing yet on the Red Planet. It will touch down on Feb. 18, 2021, in Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer-wide) expanse full of steep c...
Landing NASA's Mars 2020 Rover with Terrain Relative Navigation
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew over these sand dunes and rocks during its ninth flight, on July 5, 2021. While the agency’s Perseverance Mars can’t risk getting stuck in this sand, scientist...
Ingenuity Spots Rocks During Ninth Flight
The helicopter was tested on a stand while the cruise stage was tested on the rotation fixture.
Examining the Mars Helicopter
As NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter made its 59th flight on Mars – achieving its second highest altitude while taking pictures of this flight – the Perseverance Mars rover was watching. See two perspect...
Two Views of NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Flying on Mars
You Might Also Like
NASA has proven powered, controlled flight is possible on other worlds, just as the Wright brothers proved it was possible on Earth.
After Three Years on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends
The agency established the board in May 2023 to evaluate the technical, cost, and schedule plans prior to confirmation of the mission’s design.
NASA Releases Independent Review's Mars Sample Return Report
A pair of quakes in 2021 sent seismic waves deep into the Red Planet’s core, giving scientists the best data yet on its size and composition.
NASA InSight Study Provides Clearest Look Ever at Martian Core
Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the future.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot
Filled with rock, the sample tube will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that could be considered for a journey to Earth by the Mars Sample Return campaign.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Mars Surface
The mission has concluded that the solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years on the Red Planet.
NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science