🛰️ Mission
Perseverance
Collecting Mars, a tube at a time, for someone to fetch.
- Launched
- 30 July 2020, 6 years ago
- Landed
- 18 February 2021
- Working for
- 5 years so far
- Built by
- NASA
- Where it is
- In Jezero Crater, on what was once a river delta
- Best known for
- Drilling and sealing samples of Mars for a future mission to bring home — the first pieces of another planet ever set aside for the trip
Did you know?
- It carried Ingenuity, a helicopter the size of a tissue box, which made the first powered flight on another world in April 2021 and went on to fly 72 times.
- An instrument on board made breathable oxygen out of the Martian air, about as much as a small tree makes.
Where it went
Mars
The red planet, with the tallest volcano in the solar system.
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All of missions
Hubble Space Telescope
Thirty-six years above the weather, and still working.
James Webb Space Telescope
A golden mirror that sees the first galaxies in infrared.
Chandra X-ray Observatory
The telescope that shows what is hot and violent.
Spitzer Space Telescope
Sixteen years of infrared, through dust that hides everything else.
Kepler
Stared at one patch of sky and found thousands of planets.
TESS
Kepler’s successor, watching the whole sky for planets.