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Perseverance (rover)

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A selfie of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars, showing the rover next to a rock it drilled on during its mission.

The Amazing Perseverance Rover

The Perseverance rover is a special robot made by NASA. It lives on Mars, the red planet! This clever rover started its adventure on Mars in February 2021. It was built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

Perseverance’s big job is to explore Mars and look for clues that tiny life might have lived there long ago. It drives around Jezero Crater, a place that used to have a river and a lake. The rover has many tools, like cameras, to take pictures and study rocks. It even collected special rocks and soil in tubes for scientists to look at later.

Perseverance also helped a tiny flying machine called Ingenuity make the first flights on another world! The rover has a special power source that gives it energy for many years. So far, Perseverance has been working on Mars for over five years, showing us amazing new things about our neighboring planet.

Images

An antenna for the Ingenuity helicopter on NASA’s Perseverance rover, captured during its descent to Mars. A great example of space exploration technology!
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars during its 46th Martian day.
NASA official Thomas Zurbuchen announces the name "Perseverance" for the Mars 2020 rover at a school in Virginia, following a nationwide student contest.
A full-scale model of NASA's Perseverance rover, known as OPTIMISM, being tested in a simulated Martian landscape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
This image shows NASA's Perseverance Rover on the surface of Mars, with labels pointing out different parts of the landing system. It captures a moment in space exploration history!
A close-up of the antenna used by NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on the Mars Perseverance rover, helping it stay connected during its missions on the Red Planet.

Related articles

NASA
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jezero (crater)
Ingenuity (helicopter)

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