NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has landed safely on Mars
Quick Facts
- 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 a possible return to Earth.
- Launch: July 30, 2020
- Landing: Feb. 18, 2021
- Landing Site: Jezero Crater, Mars
- Tech Demo: The Mars Helicopter is a technology demonstration, hitching a ride on the Perseverance rover.
- Fact Sheet | Press Kit
Watch the Feb. 18 Landing Broadcast
When it comes to space happenings, few are as tense, interesting, and excessive stakes as landing a vehicle on some other planet. Within minutes, NASA’s Perseverance rover will activity to stick the landing on Mars, kicking off a new era in red planet exploration.
While NASA has a lot of journey with delivering machines to Mars (here’s searching at you, Curiosity and InSight), that does not make it any simpler this time. “Landing on Mars is hard,” NASA said. “Only about 40% of the missions ever despatched to Mars by way of any area agency have been successful.”
It’s going to be a wild ride. Here’s what to count on on Perseverance’s landing day.
Thursday, Feb. 18
- USA: 11:15 a.m. PT / 2:15 p.m. ET
- Brazil: 4:15 p.m. (Rio)
- UK: 7:15 p.m.
- South Africa: 9:15 pm
- Russia: 10:15 pm (Moscow)
- United Arab Emirates: 11:15 pm
Friday, Feb. 19
- India: 12:45am
- China: 3:15am
- Japan: 4:15 am
- Australia: 6:15am AEDT
Upcoming Events
| Date | Title | Channel | Can I ask questions? |
| Feb. 18, 2021 11:15 a.m. PST / 2:15 p.m. EST | LIVE Landing Broadcast: Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars Channels that will carry the live broadcast include: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, Daily Motion, Theta.TV, and NASA App Spanish-language show NASA Clean feed of mission control on YouTube NASA JPL Raw 360-degree stream on YouTube NASA JPL | via @NASA using #CountdownToMars | |
| Feb. 18, 2021 No earlier than 2:30 p.m. PST / 5:30 p.m. EST | Post-Landing News Briefing | Watch on YouTube NASA JPL | via @NASA using #CountdownToMars |
| Feb. 19, 2021 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST | News Briefing: Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Update | Watch on YouTube NASA JPL | via @NASA using #CountdownToMars |
| Feb. 22, 2021 11 a.m. PST / 2 p.m. EST | News Briefing: Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Update | Watch on YouTube NASA JPL | via @NASA using #CountdownToMars |
Archived On-Demand Recordings
| Feb. 18, 2021 | Landing Day Live Stream for Students | Replay on YouTube NASAJPL Edu |
| Feb. 17, 2021 | News Briefing: Searching for Ancient Life at Mars and in Samples Returned to Earth | Replay on YouTube NASA JPL |
| Feb. 17, 2021 | News Briefing: Mission Landing Update | Replay on YouTube NASA JPL |
| Feb. 17, 2021 | Elementary School Students – Countdown to Landing | Replay on YouTube NASAJPL Edu |
| Feb. 16, 2021 | News Briefing: Mission Science Overview | Replay on YouTube NASA JPL |
| Feb. 16, 2021 | News Briefing: Mission Engineering and Technology Overview | Replay on YouTube NASA JPL |
| Feb. 16, 2021 | Behind-the-Scenes Tour of JPL – Virtual NASA Social Q&A | Replay on Facebook NASA JPL |
| Feb. 16, 2021 | Middle School Students – Countdown to Landing | Replay on YouTube NASAJPL Edu |
| Feb. 16, 2021 | High School Students – Countdown to Landing | Replay on YouTube NASAJPL Edu |
| Feb. 12, 2021 | Preview the Perseverance Mars Rover Landing (live demo + Q&A) | Replay on Twitch NASA |
| Feb. 5, 2021 | Spanish: Live Chat with Fernando Abilleira of the Mars 2020 Team | Replay on YouTube NASA en Español |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Ask an Astrobiologist: Mars 2020 panel episode | Replay on Facebook NASA Astrobio |
| Jan. 27, 2021 | News Briefing: Preview to Mars Landing | Replay on YouTube NASA |
| Jan. 14, 2021 | Introducing the Mission to Mars Student Challenge | Replay on YouTube NASAJPL Edu |
| Oct. 22, 2020 | Behind the Spacecraft — Meet NASA’s Eric Aguilar Eric Aguilar, Mars 2020 Technical Group Supervisor | Replay on YouTube NASA JPL |
| Sept. 15, 2020 | Behind the Spacecraft — Meet NASA’s Diana Trujillo Diana Trujillo, Mars 2020 Phase Lead, Robotic Arm Science | Replay on YouTube NASA JPL |
| Aug. 27, 2020 | Behind the Spacecraft — Meet NASA’s Michelle Tomey Colizzi Michelle Tomey Colizzi, Mars 2020 Aeroshell Vehicle Lead | Replay on YouTube NASA JPL |
