Planet Mars: Tracking NASA's Perseverance Rover | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

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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