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Perseverance

NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory · United States · 2020

NASA's car-sized Mars rover, collecting sealed rock cores in Jezero Crater for a future sample return to Earth.

Specifications

1. [1]NASA Science — Perseverance Rover Components · manufacturer · retrieved 2026-08-14“Height: 7 feet (2.2 meters)”
2. [2]NASA Science — Perseverance Rover Components · manufacturer · retrieved 2026-08-14“Weight/mass: 2,260 pounds / 1,025 kilograms”
3. [3]NASA Science — Perseverance Rover Components · manufacturer · retrieved 2026-08-14“five degrees of freedom, made possible by tiny rotary actuator motors”
4. [4]NASA Science — Perseverance Rover Components · manufacturer · retrieved 2026-08-14“its top speed on flat, hard ground is just under 0.1 mph (152 meters per hour)”
5. [5]Spaceflight Now · press · retrieved 2026-08-14“The $2.7 billion mission's primary goals are to search for signs of ancient life on Mars”

Specifications drift. Each retrieval date is shown so a stale number is visibly stale rather than quietly wrong.