The rover Perseverance continues a highly successful mission as the 5th anniversary of its landing on Mars approaches.
The rover landed February 18, 2021 on the floor of Jezero Crater, an area believed to have once held water, and spent the first part of its mission exploring there. Now, after several months climbing up and out of the crater, the rover is exploring an area named “Lac de Charmes” – west of the crater rim. Here, Perseverance will search for impact evidence created when Jezero was formed.
Since landing, Perseverance has driven nearly 25 miles across the Martian surface, and the team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been conducting a detailed evaluation of the rover’s systems and subsystems – concluding that the rover is healthy and ready to explore for years to come!
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Artist’s illustration of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover Perseverance on the Red Planet’s surface. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
