Jet Propulsion Laboratory has directed the Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, Mars Exploration Rover, Perseverance, and Europa Clipper programs and missions.
PROMISE is a hybrid engineering development version that draws on Mars Perseverance and Curiosity heritage designs to survey the lunar surface and subsurface and prospect for resources.
NASA is considering a proposed PROMISE mission to send a Mars Perseverance rover prototype to the Moon to prospect for resources.
The Perseverance rover cost $300 million less than Curiosity by reusing the same design and spare parts.
Motiv Space Systems’ robotic arms, actuators, and drive electronics have been deployed on NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, the CADRE lunar rovers, and precision mechanisms supporting scientific instruments and spacecraft subsystems.
NASA monitored the Mars flyby through the Deep Space Network with navigation data from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Perseverance.
Northrop Grumman’s heritage HRG technology has been used on the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover.
Northrop Grumman’s legacy Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit is used on the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover.
Motiv Space Systems’ technology supported NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars and the CADRE lunar rovers.
Perseverance’s panorama was created from 980 images taken between December 18, 2025 and January 25, 2026.
NASA’s Perseverance landed in Jezero Crater in 2021 to study the origin of the crater’s ancient rocks and search for evidence of past microbial life.
Perseverance has collected 23 samples so far and stores them in metal tubes, including a set of 10 backup tubes it deposited in a sample cache.
Perseverance is 5 years old and is exploring some of the oldest landscapes in the solar system.
Perseverance’s 360-degree panorama focused on the area nicknamed Lac de Charmes outside Jezero Crater’s rim.
NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers captured two 360-degree panoramas of Mars in 2025 and 2026.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory built and operates Curiosity and Perseverance for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate within the agency’s Mars Exploration Program.
The Earth Return Orbiter was designed to be the first European spacecraft to orbit Mars and capture samples collected by the Perseverance rover for return to Earth.
Ari Rosner previously worked at JPL on the Mars Perseverance rover and Europa Clipper missions.
SuperCam deposited 10 of its collected samples at the foot of the delta and cached 23 samples inside Perseverance.
Engineers repurposed the Helicopter Base Station mounted on Perseverance to run the localization algorithm because it carries a commercial processor similar to those in mid-2010s smartphones.