After several delays, NASA has scheduled the first flight of its Ingenuity helicopter, which arrived on Mars in February with the Perseverance rover, for early on the morning of April 19th. Less than a day after NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were hard at work, awaiting the next transmissions from Perseverance. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The NASA Perseverance rover team took to Twitter this week to do a little debunking. NASA Perseverance landed in the Jezero crater on Mars just before 21:00 GMT on Thursday, February 18 after a hair raising '7-minutes of terror' and has already sent back thousands of photos. NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Verified account @NASAPersevere NASA Mars rover. Landing: Feb. 18, 2021. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) tweeted after the data came in: 'Perseverance got us to Mars. Text updates will appear automatically below. A rover image from April 4 that appeared to show a lovely … Live coverage of the mission of NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter at Mars. Follow us on Twitter. Status. — NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) April 19, 2021 Live coverage began on NASA's site Monday morning at 6:15 a.m. NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will look for signs of past microbial life, cache rock and soil samples, and prepare for future human exploration. Current About the mission. Launch: July 30, 2020. An artist's illustration of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover in cruise mode after launching into space. ET, and … The rover launched toward Mars July 30, 2020 and will arrive on Feb. 18, 2021. The Mars 2020 mission with its Perseverance rover is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. With Ingenuity, we soar higher,' describing the drone as the 'little rotorcraft that could.'