Planet Mars: Tracking NASA's Perseverance Rover | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
This 2022 image from Mars orbit shows some of the tracks left by the Perseverance rover as it traveled to the west of this location in Jezero Crater. Part of the justification for this observation is to extend color coverage of the rover’s traverse.
Celebrating 2+ Years on Mars (2021-2023)
Mission Name: Mars 2020
Rover Name: Perseverance
Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.
Mars Helicopter (Ingenuity)
Launch: July 30, 2020
Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars
For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov
Image cutout is less than 1 km (under a mile) across and the spacecraft altitude was 279 km (173 mi).
Acquisition Date: April 11, 2022
Local Mars time
15:41
Latitude (centered)
18.457°
Longitude (East)
77.460°
The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
“For 17 years, MRO has been revealing Mars to us as no one had seen it before,” said the mission’s project scientist, Rich Zurek of JPL.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona
Image Date: April 11, 2022
Release Date: June 13, 2023
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