• Mission Name: Mars 2020

• Rover Name: Perseverance

• Main Job: The Perseverance rover will seek signs of ancient life and collect rock and soil samples for possible return to Earth.

• Launch: July 30, 2020, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

• Landing: Feb. 18, 2021

• Landing Site: Jezero Crater, Mars

• Mission Duration: At least one Mars year (about 687 Earth days)

• Tech Demo: The Mars Helicopter is a technology demonstration, hitching a ride on the Perseverance rover.

Perseverance Landing Day Milestones

 Step 1 | Cruise Stage Separation

 Step 2 | Atmospheric Entry

 Step 3 | Peak Heating

 Step 4 | Peak Deceleration

 Step 5 | Parachute Deployment

 Step 6 | Heat Shield Separation

 Step 7 | Radar Lock

 Step 8 | Terrain Relative Navigation Solution

 Step 9 | Backshell Separation

 Step 10 | Powered Descent

 Step 11 | Rover Separation/Sky Crane

 Step 12 | Touchdown!

Toolkit Resources

Photo:NASA Jezero Crater

Explore Jezero Crater, the future home of NASA’s Perseverance rover

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Perseverance on Mars: ​This illustration depicts NASA’s Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Perseverance will land at the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater a little after 3:40 p.m. EST (12:40 p.m. PST) on Feb. 18, 2021. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Photo NASA: Ingenuity