Meet the Mars 2020 Rover - PERSEVERANCE
The Mars 2020 rover has a name - PERSEVERANCE!
And of course now that it has a name, it has a Twitter account, where you can follow along with its future adventures: https://twitter.com/NasaPersevere.
NASA's Perseverance rover is a robotic scientist weighing just under 2,300 pounds (1,043 kilograms). The rover’s astrobiology mission includes searching for signs of past microbial life. It also will characterize the planet's climate and geology, and collect samples of Martian rocks and dust for a future Mars Sample Return mission to Earth, while paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
It’s targeted to land on Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, where it will join the active rovers Curiosity and InSight.
Origiinally posted on Facebook.