NASA Mars 2020 rover mission to deploy Perseverance Rover to explore Mars | planned launch on 20 July 2020 at 13:15 UTC

Learn about the next launch to Mars, the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover:  

Planned rocket launch on 20th, July 2020 at 13:15 UTC, and touch down location, Jezero crater on Mars, 18th, February 2021.

Participants

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine –

Lori Glaze director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington

Katie Stack Morgan Perseverance deputy project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California

Matt Wallace, Perseverance deputy project manager at JPL – Luis Dominguez, Perseverance deputy electrical integration and test lead at JPL

Omar Baez launch director in NASA’s Launch Services Program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida

Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover will be tasked to search for signs of past microbial life on Mars, this is so scientists can characterize Mar’s climate and geology. It has also been tasked with collecting rock and dust samples for analysis back on Earth, to help with future human exploration. Mission launch will be at location; Space Launch Complex 41 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:15 a.m. EDT July 20th, 2020. Landing is scheduled at Mar’s Jezero Crater February, 18th, 2021.

For more about Perseverance visit: https://nasa.gov/perseverance and https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020