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Mars 2020 Rover

This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying a Mars rock outrcrop.

Launch Date	2020
Launch Site	Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
Destination	Mars
Type	Rover
Status	In Development
Nation	United States
Alternate Names

Goals

Mars 2020 will seek signs of ancient life by studying terrain that is now inhospitable, but once held flowing rivers and lakes, more than 3.5 billion years ago. It also will collect and deposit soil samples for potential future collection by another mission.

Accomplishments

This Mars rover is in development

Key Dates

2020: Launch

Spacecraft

Launch Vehicle: Atlas V-541

Spacecraft Mass:

Spacecraft Instruments

Mastcam-Z
SuperCam
Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL)
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
The Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE)
Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA)
Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Exploration (RIMFAX)

Additional Resources

NASA Mars Program: Mars 2020

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