Skip Navigation. In 1998, The NASA Near-Earth Object Program Office was established at JPL to coordinate NASA-sponsored efforts to detect, track and characterize potentially hazardous asteroids and comets that could approach the Earth. NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet As NASA's Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 11th birthday, its JPL-built camera has added picture number 100,000 to its bulging photo album. Launch Window: July 20 - Aug. 11, 2020 Launch Location: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida Landing: Feb. 18, 2021 Landing Site: Jezero Crater, Mars Mission Duration: At least one Mars year (about 687 Earth days) MEP is now developing the Mars 2020 rover mission (https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mars2020/) to determine whether life may have left telltale signatures in the rocks on Mars’s surface, a further shift to the current science theme “Seek the Signs of Life”. View raw images taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover. The Mars 2020 rover will investigate a region of Mars where the ancient environment may have been favorable for microbial life, probing the Martian rocks for evidence of past life.
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menu Mars Curiosity Rover Multimedia. NASA. NASA Science Mars Exploration Program. MarCO-B, one of the experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats, took this image of Mars from about 4,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) away during its flyby of the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2018. Mission Name: Mars 2020 Rover Name: Perseverance Main Job: The Perseverance rover will seek signs of ancient life and collect rock and soil samples for possible return to Earth. Throughout its investigation, it will collect samples of soil and rock, and cache them on the surface for potential return to Earth by a …