Mars Exploration

Perseverance Landed on Mars February 18, 2021

Meet the People Behind NASA's Perseverance Rover - Sending a rover to Mars take s large team. Meet some of the members.
Seeking Signs of Life in the Ancient Rock Record - When the NASA Perseverance Mars rover lands on the Red Planet, it will be caching rock samples for a future mission to collect and return to Earth. For Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist at NASA-JPL Katie Stack Morgan, studying rocks is not only important in the search for ancient life, but it’s also a hobby.
From Columbia to Mars - When she moved to the U.S. from Colombia, NASA-JPL engineer Diana Trujillo didn’t speak English. She paid her way through college by cleaning houses, learned English, and is now working to send her second spacecraft to the surface of Mars.

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Animations - View an animation of key events from the entry, descent, and landing.
Mars Rover Landing CRASH COURSE - Great overview of the landing, mission and more.

Google Mars - Explore Mars and look for alluvial fans, channels, deltas, craters, and other areas that may have had flowing water.
Perseverance Rover Landing Site Map - Check in on the rover in the Jesero Crater. Drop pins, take images and keep up on the Perseverance's daily progress.

The Mars Rovers--Read about and compare the rovers NASA has sent to Mars, from Sourjurner to Perseverance.
Why do we care about water on Mars?--Using images of mars, read about how NASA began its search for water on the Red Planet.
All About Mars--Learn about Mars history and the missions NASA has sent in this interactive article.
What Powers a Spacecraft?--Learn about the different ways that NASA spacecrafts obtain energy.
How Do We Launch Things Into Space?-- Find out how rockets lift off and travel above Earth and even to other planets!

Send Your Name to Mars-- We're taking reservations! Send Your Name to Mars on NASA's next flight to the Red Planet.
Listen to Sounds of Mars--Ever wonder how you would sound on Mars? Grab your headsets, turn up the volume and listen for the subtle differences between the sounds on Earth versus how they would sound on the Red Planet.
Mars Photo Booth--Welcome to Mars! We can't take you to Mars (yet!) but we can bring the Red Planet to you. Put yourself in mission control, or on Mars, next to the rover. Upload your favorite photo, pick a background, and download it!
Explore the Virtual Landing Packet--This interactive flipbook is packed with all the information you need to get ready for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing. Flip through the interactive packet, or download the PDF.
Ask NASA Mars--Ask a question about Mars, and get info all about the Red Planet, and how we explore it with rovers, orbiters and landers and someday, astronauts.

Test Drive a Mars Rover Game - Always wanted to cruise around on the surface of another planet? Well, you’re in luck! In Explore Mars, you will be 'driving' a rover on Mars and collecting information about Martian rocks.