NASA Science Live :psyche's journey to a Metal World

On August 23, 2023, NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landed in Jezero Crater, a 45-kilometer-wide ancient impact basin on Mars. The landing marks the beginning of a multi-year mission to search for signs of ancient life on Mars.

Perseverance is equipped with a variety of instruments to help it in its mission, including a drill that can extract samples of Martian rock and soil, a camera that can take high-resolution images of the Martian surface, and a spectrometer that can analyze the chemical composition of Martian rocks.

The rover will spend the next few years exploring Jezero Crater, looking for evidence that the crater once contained liquid water, which is essential for life as we know it. Perseverance will also collect samples of Martian rock and soil that could be returned to Earth for further analysis.

This historic landing is a major milestone in NASA's exploration of Mars and brings us one step closer to understanding whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.