Mars 2020 Perseverance Landing This illustration depicts NASA's Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Mars 2020 Perseverance Landing In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers observed the first driving test for NASA's Mars 2020 rover on Dec. 17, 2019. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Mars 2020 Perseverance Landing a close-up of the head of Mars 2020's remote sensing mast. The mast head contains the SuperCam instrument (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Mars 2020 Perseverance Landing This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover exploring Mars.
The mission will not only seek out and study an area likely to have been habitable in the distant past, but it will take the next, bold step in robotic exploration of the Red Planet by seeking signs of past microbial life itself. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Mars 2020 Perseverance Landing NASA's Mars 2020 rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions to retrieve, as seen in this illustration. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
