https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/mars-rovers/en/
Learn about the five robotic vehicles, or rovers, that NASA has sent to Mars since the 1970s. Find out what each rover has discovered and how they help scientists understand the Red Planet better.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/
The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover searches for signs of ancient microbial life, to advance NASA's quest to explore the past habitability of Mars. The rover is collecting core samples of Martian rock and soil (broken rock and soil), for potential pickup by a future mission that would bring them to Earth for detailed study.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-exploration-rovers-spirit-and-opportunity/
NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers were identical twin robots that helped rewrite our understanding of the early history of Mars. NASA's twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on Mars on Jan. 3 and Jan. 24, 2004 PST (Jan. 4 and Jan. 25 UTC). The rovers were planned as 90-day missions to search for geological clues regarding

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance-rover
The Perseverance Mars rover is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.. Perseverance is investigating Jezero Crater - a region of Mars where the ancient environment may have been favorable for microbial

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/rover-components/
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars. From the moment of parachute inflation, the camera system covers the entirety of the descent process

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/jpl/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-makes-surprising-discoveries/
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-rover-set-to-begin-third-year-at-jezero-crater/
NASA's Perseverance rover will celebrate its second anniversary on the surface of Mars Saturday, Feb. 18. Since arriving at Jezero Crater in 2021, the six-wheeled, nuclear-powered rover has been examining geologic features and collecting samples of the Red Planet that are central to the first step of the NASA-ESA (European Space Agency) Mars

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-finds-surprise-clues-to-mars-watery-past/
NASA's Curiosity rover recently found surprising clues to Mars' watery past, including while exploring a region called the "Marker Band.". "This is the best evidence of water and waves that we've seen in the entire mission," said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern

https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/nasas-self-driving-perseverance-mars-rover-takes-the-wheel/
Perseverance is the newest rover on Mars, equipped with a powerful auto-navigation system that allows it to avoid obstacles and drive faster than its predecessors. Learn how AutoNav works, what challenges it faces, and what it reveals about the Martian landscape and history.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/mars_2020/landing/mission/spacecraft/perseverance_rover/
Learn about the features, instruments, and science goals of Perseverance, the car-size rover that will explore Jezero Crater on Mars. Find out how it differs from Curiosity and other rovers, and how it will collect and cache samples for future return to Earth.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/new-finds-for-mars-rover-seven-years-after-landing/
Curiosity rover has been studying the ancient lake environment on Mount Sharp for seven years, discovering new features and puzzles. Learn about the latest findings from the clay-bearing unit, where the rover drilled its 22nd sample and captured stunning panoramas.

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/mission-overview-nasas-perseverance-mars-rover/
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is heading to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life, collect samples for future return to Earth and help pave the way for human exploration. The rover will carry with it several technology demonstrations including a helicopter, which will attempt humanity's first powered flight on another planet. Perseverance has a new set of science instruments

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/
The car-size rover is about as tall as a basketball player and uses a 7 foot-long arm to place tools close to rocks selected for study. Curiosity's large size allows it to carry an advanced kit of 10 science instruments. It has tools including 17 cameras, a laser to vaporize and study small pinpoint spots of rocks at a distance, and a drill to

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/mars-curiosity/en/
The landing sites of all four Mars rovers on a map of Mars. National Geographic Society, MOLA Science Team, MSS, JPL, NASA. An up close image of Gale Crater, from above. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU. The rover uses many scientific instruments to study the rocks in Gale Crater. Curiosity used its drill to make a hole in a rock that once was mud

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mer/20-years-after-landing-how-nasas-twin-rovers-changed-mars-science/
Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004 and revealed its wet, ancient past. Learn how they changed Mars science and inspired future missions.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/signs-of-life-on-mars-nasas-perseverance-rover-begins-the-hunt
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has begun its search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. Flexing its 7-foot (2-meter) mechanical arm, the rover is testing the sensitive detectors it carries, capturing their first science readings. Along with analyzing rocks using X-rays and ultraviolet light, the six-wheeled scientist will zoom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseverance_(rover)
NASA Mars rovers. ← Curiosity. Perseverance, nicknamed Percy, [2] is a car -sized Mars rover designed to explore the Jezero crater on Mars as part of NASA 's Mars 2020 mission. It was manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched on July 30, 2020, at 11:50 UTC. [3] Confirmation that the rover successfully landed on Mars was

https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-science/programs/mars-exploration/
Led by our curiosity of the cosmos, NASA has sent a carefully selected international fleet of robotic orbiters, landers and rovers to keep a continuous flow of scientific information and discovery from Mars. The science and technology developed through Mars Exploration missions will enable humans to one day explore the Red Planet in person.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory-curiosity-rover-msl
The Mars Science Laboratory mission's Curiosity rover landed in Mars' Gale Crater the evening of August 5, 2012 PDT (morning of August 6 EDT) using a series of complicated landing maneuvers never before attempted. The specialized landing sequence, which employed a giant parachute, a jet-controlled descent vehicle and a bungee-like apparatus

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/27127/the-power-of-the-rovers/
NASA's first three Mars rovers - Sojourner, Spirit, and Opportunity - used solar panels to gather light energy, or photons, from the Sun. The rovers exploring Mars today - Curiosity and Perseverance - use a system called a "Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator," or RTG. Sabah Bux: Yeah, because here on Earth we can plug in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_rover
NASA's Curiosity rover, selfie, 2015. A Mars rover is a remote-controlled motor vehicle designed to travel on the surface of Mars. Rovers have several advantages over stationary landers: they examine more territory, they can be directed to interesting features, they can place themselves in sunny positions to weather winter months, and they can

https://mars.nasa.gov/
Earth-Mars Comparison: This composite image, from NASA Galileo and Mars Global Survey orbiters, of Earth and Mars was created to allow viewers to gain a better understanding of the relative sizes of the two planets. ... NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this video of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 54th flight on Aug. 3, 2023. After

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-european-space-agency-unite-to-land-europes-rover-on-mars/
Credits: ESA/Damien Dos Santos. NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) announced Thursday they signed an agreement to expand NASA's work on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, an ESA-led mission launching in 2028 that will search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. With this memorandum of understanding, the NASA Launch Services

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-exploration-rovers-spirit-and-opportunity/science-highlights/
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded the component images for this self-portrait about three weeks before completing a decade of work on Mars. The rover's panoramic camera (Pancam) took the images during the interval Jan. 3, 2014, to Jan. 6, 2014, a few days after winds removed some of the dust that had been accumulating on the

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mars-rover-robot-red-planet-history-nasa-china
Twenty-five years ago that little robot, a six-wheeled rover named Sojourner, made it — becoming the first in a string of rovers built and operated by NASA to explore Mars. Four more NASA rovers

https://www.space.com/the-universe/mars/perseverance-rovers-mars-rock-sample-may-contain-best-evidence-of-possible-ancient-life
The lead scientist for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is excited about material that has been stored in the rover's sample tubes, both dropped on the surface of Mars and contained within the rover

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/air-space-museum/2024/05/24/for-20-years-robots-have-inhabited-mars-what-keeps-them-humming/
On February 12, 2019, a team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, sent one final set of commands to the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity.

https://oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ig-11-019.pdf?emrc=6653f0e875ed9
of supporting life. To answer this question, NASA plans to place a rover - known as Curiosity - on the surface of Mars to assess the biological potential at the landing site, characterize the geology of the landing region, investigate planetary processes that influence habitability, and analyze surface radiation. This roving science laboratory