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11 Facts About Mars 2020

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Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission forming part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program that includes the rover Perseverance, the small robotic, coaxial helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery vehicles.

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Mars 2020 was launched from Earth on an Atlas V launch vehicle at 11:50:01 UTC on 30 July 2020, and confirmation of touch down in the Martian crater Jezero was received at 20:55 UTC on 18 February 2021.

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Perseverance will investigate an astrobiologically relevant ancient environment on Mars 2020 and investigate its surface geological processes and history, including the assessment of its past habitability, the possibility of past life on Mars 2020, and the potential for preservation of biosignatures within accessible geological materials.

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The Mars 2020 mission was announced by NASA in December 2012 at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

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Launch of Mars 2020 was the third of three space missions sent toward Mars during the July 2020 Mars launch window, with missions launched by the national space agencies of the United Arab Emirates and China .

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Mars 2020 mission was announced by NASA on 4 December 2012 at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

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The chairman of the Science Definition Team stated that NASA does not presume that life ever existed on Mars 2020, but given the recent Curiosity rover findings, past Martian life seems possible.

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Launch window, when the positions of Earth and Mars were optimal for traveling to Mars, opened on 17 July 2020 and lasted through 15 August 2020.

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The spacecraft fired thrusters to adjust its course toward Mars 2020, shifting the probe's initial post-launch aim point onto the Red Planet.

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Perseverance successfully landed on the surface of Mars 2020 with help of the skycrane on 18 February 2021 at 20:55 UTC, to begin its science phase, and began sending images back to Earth.

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In May Mars 2020, NASA attached a small aluminum plate to Perseverance to commemorate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pay "tribute to the perseverance of healthcare workers around the world".

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