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Timeline of Mars 2020

Summary

Self-portrait of Mars 2020 containing Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter located at the Ingenuity helicopter drop site (7 April 2021)
Perseverance rover on Mars (artist; 18 February 2021)

The Mars 2020 mission and its rover, Perseverance, and helicopter Ingenuity, were launched from Earth on 30 July 2020. As of April 17, 2021, Perseverance has been on the planet Mars for 56 sols (58 total days; 58 days) since landing on 18 February 2021. Current weather data on Mars is being gathered by the Curiosity rover and the Insight lander.[1][2] The Perseverance rover will also collect weather data. (See External links)

Events

Prelaunch (2012–2020)

  • 4 December 2012: Mars 2020 mission announced by NASA
  • 8–10 February 2017: Workshop held to discuss eight proposed landing sites for the mission. The three sites chosen were Jezero crater, Northeastern Syrtis Major Planum, and Columbia Hills.

Launch (2020)

  • 30 July: Atlas V rocket launched from Cape Canaveral

Landing (2021)

  • 18 February: Landing in Jezero crater on Mars
  • 4 March: Perseverance rover's first test drive.
  • 5 March: NASA named the Perseverance rover landing site "Octavia E. Butler Landing".[3]
  • 8 April: NASA reported the first MEDA weather report on Mars: for 3-4 April 2021, the high was "minus-7.6 degrees, and a low of minus-117.4 degrees ... [winds] gusting to ... 22 mph".[4]
Perseverance's First Test Drive (4 March 2021)
Rover's first wheel tracks
Rover's first test drive (animation-gif)
Rocket scour and tracks

Location (2021)

  • Overview map of the Perseverance rover
    (18 February 2021)
  • Close-up map of the Perseverance rover
    (18 February 2021)
  • Mars Perseverance rover - possible routes for exploration and study
  • Octavia E. Butler Landing In Jezero Crater
    (5 March 2021)[3]
  • Perseverance rover track and Ingenuity Helicopter Flight Zone seen after rover had reached Van Zyl Overlook

Gallery

Mars - Perseverance rover - Landing Site Panoramic View (18 February 2021)
Mars - Perseverance rover - EDL Overview (18 February 2021)

Self-portraits

Mars 2020 in Jezero crater on Mars — self-portraits
Octavia E. Butler Landing
(February 2021)
Ingenuity helicopter drop site
(April 2021)

Videos

Audio

  • First audio captured from the surface of another planet (Sol 1)
    Raw audio version. See also the filtered version that has the rover noise removed.
  • Recording of Martian wind (Sol 4)
  • First acoustic recording of laser shots on Mars (Sol 12)
  • Sounds of Perseverance rover driving on the surface of Mars (Sol 16)
    Highlights from the 16-minute raw audio processed to reduce noise.
  • Problems listening to the files? See media help.

Images

Perseverance rover on Mars

  • First image received after landing (bw photo)

  • First color photo

  • Perseverance's wheel on Mars

  • Mastcam-Z Calibration target[5]

  • SkyCam Calibration Target with Mars Meteorite in the top of the plate

  • Rover test drive
    (7 March 2021)

Ingenuity helicopter on Mars [a]

  • Ingenuity helicopter's first color image on deployment on Martian surface[b]

  • Ingenuity helicopter - swatch from the Wright Brothers first airplane, the Wright Flyer

Ingenuity deployment and pre-flight operations on Mars

  • Ingenuity stowed underneath rover

  • Ingenuity revealed after dropping shield

  • Rover moves away from shield

  • Deployment begins

  • Fully vertical

  • Legs deployed

  • Successful deployment on Mars

  • Mars helicopter on sol 46

  • Ingenuity rotor blades unlocked for flying

  • Ingenuity on Sol 48

  • Ingenuity gives its blades a slow speed or 50 rpm test spin

  • Flight zone and rover locations

  • Flight zone map

  • Rover view of flight zone

  • Flight zone activities

Landing

  • HiRISE image of Perseverance descent

  • HiRISE image (cropped) of descent

  • View up at descent stage from Perseverance.

  • View of landing from sky crane.

  • Dust plume from descent stage right after landing (B+W)

  • View of Perseverance from orbit shortly after landing (HiRISE)

Launch

  • AV-088, the Atlas V 541 rocket, at launch

Prelaunch

  • Artist's rendition of rover

  • The rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab

  • The helicopter team with Ingenuity

  • The cruise stage connected to the back shell

  • Heat shield and back shell to protect the rover

  • The powered descent stage

  • The five critical components involved in landing the rover

Misc

  • Top of rover with "Family Portrait" (B+W)

  • "Family Portrait" decal close-up (with text labels added)[5]

  • Mars 2020 Covid-19 healthworkers plate

  • Rover DNA inscription

Wide images

Panorama from Perseverance's landing site (21 February 2021)
Panorama from Perseverance's landing site (ultra-high-rez; 22 February 2021)
Acheron FossaeAcidalia PlanitiaAlba MonsAmazonis PlanitiaAonia PlanitiaArabia TerraArcadia PlanitiaArgentea PlanumArgyre PlanitiaChryse PlanitiaClaritas FossaeCydonia MensaeDaedalia PlanumElysium MonsElysium PlanitiaGale craterHadriaca PateraHellas MontesHellas PlanitiaHesperia PlanumHolden craterIcaria PlanumIsidis PlanitiaJezero craterLomonosov craterLucus PlanumLycus SulciLyot craterLunae PlanumMalea PlanumMaraldi craterMareotis FossaeMareotis TempeMargaritifer TerraMie craterMilankovič craterNepenthes MensaeNereidum MontesNilosyrtis MensaeNoachis TerraOlympica FossaeOlympus MonsPlanum AustralePromethei TerraProtonilus MensaeSirenumSisyphi PlanumSolis PlanumSyria PlanumTantalus FossaeTempe TerraTerra CimmeriaTerra SabaeaTerra SirenumTharsis MontesTractus CatenaTyrrhen TerraUlysses PateraUranius PateraUtopia PlanitiaValles MarinerisVastitas BorealisXanthe TerraMap of Mars
The image above contains clickable linksInteractive image map of the global topography of Mars, overlain with locations of Mars landers and rovers. Hover your mouse over the image to see the names of over 60 prominent geographic features, and click to link to them. Coloring of the base map indicates relative elevations, based on data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor. Whites and browns indicate the highest elevations (+12 to +8 km); followed by pinks and reds (+8 to +3 km); yellow is 0 km; greens and blues are lower elevations (down to −8 km). Axes are latitude and longitude; Polar regions are noted.
(See also: Mars map, Mars Memorials, Mars Memorials map) (view • discuss)
(   Active Rover •   Active Lander •   Future )
Beagle 2
Bradbury Landing
Deep Space 2
Columbia Memorial Station
InSight Landing
Mars 2
Mars 3
Mars 6
Mars Polar Lander
Challenger Memorial Station
Mars 2020
Green Valley
Schiaparelli EDM lander
Carl Sagan Memorial Station
Columbia Memorial Station
Tianwen-1
Thomas Mutch Memorial Station
Gerald Soffen Memorial Station

See also

Notes

  1. ^ All Images Taken By Ingenuity Are Taken From black-and-white downward-facing navigation camera or horizon-facing terrain camera .
  2. ^ On clearly seeing you can see Ingenuity legs on both sides of the image along with wheels in top corners in this image.

References

  1. ^ Dvorsky, George (20 February 2019). "You Can Now Check the Weather on Mars Every Day". Gizmodo. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  2. ^ Berger, Eric (20 February 2019). "With the best air pressure sensor ever on Mars, scientists find a mystery". Ars Technica. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  3. ^ a b Staff (5 March 2021). "Welcome to 'Octavia E. Butler Landing'". NASA. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  4. ^ Cappucci, Matthew (8 April 2021). "NASA receives first weather reports from Perseverance rover on Mars at Jezero Crater - The weather data is crucial as the first flight of Ingenuity draws near". The Washington Post]]. Retrieved 8 April 2021. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  5. ^ a b Staff (7 March 2021). "Messages on Mars Perseverance Rover". NASA. Retrieved 7 March 2021. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)

External links

  • Current Weather Report on Mars by the Perseverance rover – MEDA
    • (MarsWxReport/temp; 1st Report/6apr2021; NASA-1; NASA-2)
  • Current Weather Report on Mars by the Curiosity rover
  • Current Weather Report on Mars by the InSight lander
  • Perseverance rover: Official website
  • Mars 2020: Official website
  • Mars 2020: Location Maps
  • Video (03:25) - Mars 2020 – Landing on Mars (18 February 2021) on YouTube
  • Video (60:00) - Minerals and the Origins of Life - (Robert Hazen; NASA; April 2014)
  • Video (86:49) - Search for Life in the Universe - (NASA; July 2014)