Perseverance Rover

NASA's Mars 2020 rover exploring Jezero Crater.

Perseverance is a NASA rover exploring Mars as part of the Mars 2020 mission. It launched on 30 July 2020 on an Atlas V and landed in Jezero Crater on 18 February 2021, a site chosen for its ancient river delta.

It searches for signs of ancient life, studies the geology and climate and collects rock samples for a possible return to Earth. It carried the helicopter Ingenuity, which made the first powered flight on another planet in April 2021, and an experiment that made oxygen from the Martian atmosphere.