Spacecraft · Mars rover

Perseverance

Solar System

Scientific overview

Perseverance is a mars rover, operated by NASA, launched in 2020.

Mission

Agency	NASA
Launched	2020
Type	rover
Status	active

Targets & destinations

Sources

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NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.
NASA JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory / Solar System Dynamics
Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.

Quick facts

Type: Mars rover

Provenance & sources

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Historical evidenceconfirmed
NASA's Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater on Mars on 18 February 2021 to seek signs of ancient microbial life and to cache samples for possible future return to Earth.
Source: NASA Science · Public domain (US Government work)

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Scientific citations

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Mission pagePerseverance (Mars 2020) — NASA

NASA

Cite (APA / BibTeX)

NASA (n.d.). Perseverance (Mars 2020) — NASA. NASA. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/

@misc{cite:mission-spacecraft-perseverance,
  title        = {Perseverance (Mars 2020) — NASA},
  organization = {NASA},
  year         = {n.d.},
  url          = {https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/},
  note         = {NASA mission page for Perseverance (Mars 2020).}
}

Quality & authority

63%

Reviewed

Completeness: Complete
Source coverage: Complete
Citation coverage: Complete
Relationship coverage: Complete
Review coverage: Complete
Image coverage: None

Data from the NASA Planetary Fact Sheet & JPL (public domain). See source quality.

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Sources

Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.

NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.

NASA JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory / Solar System Dynamics

Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.

NASA (n.d.). Perseverance (Mars 2020) — NASA. NASA. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/ @misc{cite:mission-spacecraft-perseverance, title = {Perseverance (Mars 2020) — NASA}, organization = {NASA}, year = {n.d.}, url = {https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/}, note = {NASA mission page for Perseverance (Mars 2020).} }