The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter was expected to pass over the Perseverance landing site around 9:30 p.m. Eastern to provide additional imaging.
Perseverance was scheduled to land at Jezero Crater at 3:55 p.m. Eastern on 2021-02-18.
L3Harris communications technology will transmit data to and from the Perseverance rover through relay orbiters that provide a communications link with NASA controllers on Earth from up to 250 million miles away.
NASA’s 2020-03-01 spacecraft is scheduled to land the rover Perseverance in Jezero Crater on Mars at about 3:55 p.m. Eastern on 2021-02-18 based on an 11 minutes and 22 seconds light travel time from Mars.
The Mars Sample Return program includes two missions launching no earlier than 2026 in cooperation with ESA to collect the samples cached by Perseverance and return them to Earth.
Perseverance will study Mars' past habitability and cache samples for return to Earth by two NASA and ESA missions scheduled to launch no earlier than 2026.
NASA's 2020-03-01 mission was scheduled to arrive at Mars on 2021-02-18 and land the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater.
Hope is the first of three missions arriving at Mars in 2021-02-01, followed by China’s Tianwen-1 on 2021-02-10 and NASA’s 2020-03-01 mission arriving to land Perseverance on 2021-02-18.
Mars 2020 will cache samples in support of a broader Mars Sample Return program in which Perseverance’s cached samples will be collected and returned to Earth on two later missions launching no earlier than 2026.
The Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, may deliver samples to the Mars Sample Return lander.
Mars samples collected by Perseverance are planned to be returned to Earth no earlier than 2031 by two subsequent missions planned in cooperation with the European Space Agency.
The Perseverance rover that Mars 2020 will deliver to the surface of Mars next February will cache samples of Martian rocks.
Perseverance is based on the Curiosity rover platform, and Curiosity has been on Mars since August 2012.
2020-03-01 will deliver the Perseverance rover to Jezero Crater, with a landing scheduled for 2021-02-18.
NASA and the European Space Agency are developing two later missions to return Perseverance’s cached samples to Earth with launches planned in 2026.
Perseverance may deliver some sample tubes directly to the NASA-developed lander.
Mars 2020 will deliver the rover Perseverance to the surface of Mars.
The Mars 2020 rover Perseverance is based on the Curiosity rover and carries about 50% more surface payload than Curiosity.
Perseverance will land on Mars on 2021-02-18 regardless of what day it launches during the current launch period.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s robotic exploration of Mars that leads toward sending humans to Mars.