Perseverance has landed: Mars Travel Success!
February 18, 2021
Exploring Jezero crater as a habitable environment.
Should Mars be on your travel bucket list?
The rover known as Perseverance has landed on Mars and is sending back its first images. It has been a 292.5 million-mile, 7-month journey to get there from planet Earth.
USGS has a unique perspective on this historic landing. From their point of view, when you’re planning to explore someplace new, it’s always a good idea to bring a map so you can avoid dangerous terrain. This is true whether you’re heading out for a hike on Earth or you’re landing a rover on Mars.
Mars 2020 Mission: The Perseverance Rover Landing
Mars 2020 Mission
February 17, 2021
The excitement of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars can be witnessed on NASA TV starting at 11:15 PST on February 18, 2021.
Landing zone for Mars 2020 mission (Credit: Ryan Anderson, USGS).
The time is finally here!
When you’re planning to explore someplace new, it’s always a good idea to bring a map so you can avoid dangerous terrain. This is true whether you’re heading out for a hike on Earth or you’re landing a rover on Mars. In either case, the USGS has you covered.
After nearly seven months of travel through space, NASA’s Perseverance rover will touch down on Mars on Thursday, February 18. The mission’s goals are to search for evidence of past life and habitable environments in Jezero crater and collect and store samples that, for the first time in history, could be returned to Earth by a future mission.