Where is the Perseverance rover now?
- Where on Mars
- Jezero Crater 18.44 north, 77.45 east
- Landed
- 18 February 2021 Mars 2020 mission
Where it is
Perseverance is in Jezero Crater in the northern hemisphere of Mars, near 18.44 degrees north and 77.45 degrees east. The model marks the site on the globe rather than as a point in space, because that is what it is: a place on a surface, not an object in orbit. How far away it is depends entirely on where Mars and Earth are in their orbits, which is the thing the model is for.
Why the pin does not move
The rover drives, but slowly, and its published waypoints move it across ground that is a few kilometres wide on a planet 6,779 kilometres across. At the scale this model draws Mars, that motion is smaller than the pin. The pin marks the landing site and the area it has worked in, not a live position updated by the hour.
What it is doing
Perseverance landed on 18 February 2021 to look for signs of ancient microbial life in what was once a river delta, and to collect and cache samples of rock and regolith for a possible later return to Earth.
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