How does a Mars Rover work? (Perseverance)

The Perseverance Rover landed on Mars on Feb 18, 2021. Come see how it works!

Thanks to Andrew Good and Rick Welch at NASA's JPL for their help with this video!

This video has been dubbed in over 20 languages, you can change the audio track language in the Settings menu (click the gear icon in the lower right hand corner of the video).

📼Video Summary:
The Mars2020 Perseverance Rover took about 8 years to complete here on Earth. Built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Then it was shipped to Kennedy Space Center in Florida where it was launched. It took 7 months to get to Mars. Parts of the spacecraft include Cruise Stage, Backshell, Descent Stage, Perseverance, and the Heat Shield. Getting to the Surface of Mars is called EDL - Entry, Descent, and Landing. This must happen autonomously. The main purpose of the rover is to search for signs of life. Scientific instruments include SuperCam, MastCam-Z, MEDA, SHERLOC, WATSON, PIXL, MOXIE, and RIMFAX. The rover also brought along a helicopter called Ingenuity. This is the first helicopter to fly on another planet!

⌚Timestamps:
00:00-Intro
00:56-Previous Mars Rovers
01:34-Built on Earth
03:02-Launch Window
03:36-Launch
05:08-Spacecraft
06:01-Communication Delay
07:23-Entry,Descent, and Landing (EDL)
09:12-Main Purpose
09:34-Tour of the Rover
13:20-Communicating with Earth
14:44-Ingenuity Helicopter
16:01-Next steps on Mars
16:21-Morning Brew
17:19-More Animations

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🌐Internet Sources:

Built For Mars: The Perseverance Rover (National Geographic Documentary)

📚Book Sources:
Perseverance and the Mars 2020 Mission by Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried

NASA Missions to Mars: A Visual History of Our Question to Explore the Red Planet by Piers Bizony

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[JaredOwen]

Did I miss any cool facts about Perseverance?! Please share in the comments down below👇

[averagejoe]

My dad works at Teledyne E2V in Essex, and has specifically made some parts for the Perseverance rover. Really nice to see its still relevant!

[LightSky]

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[stewartmoore]

Amazing video and animations. I will never get over the fact that scientists/engineers have sent robots to other planets. The utter vastness and coldness of space punctuated by these tiny miracles of human ingenuity. It's insane.

[rampantdawn]

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[noa]

I'm baffled to know that this has actually happened and it isn't just a hypothetical theory video of how one could get a rover to Mars. Like, bro, humans can do some super cool stuff!

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Thanks and keep up the amazing work. You’re truly an inspiration for all of us.

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Fantastic animation as always!! Your space craft videos are some of my favorite videos on YouTube.

[sumukhmysore]

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[Abdul_Edryan_Raoul]

Attention all Space Enthusiasts. Ingenuity is severely damaged. I repeat, Ingenuity is severely damaged. 2 of the rotors have been destroyed after a crash landing on the surface but it is still operational. Hopefully we will send humans to mars and NASA can fix Ingenuity.

[SteveandLizDonaldson]

Amazing work, Jared! Fascinating to watch.
Probably someone pointed this out in the 1800+ comments so far: a small patch of the fabric from the Wright Brothers Kitty Hawk flyer was fastened to the Ingenuity rover. A real tribute to the just over 100 years of human flight.

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[dexter.lab.and.tech.solutions]

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[StellarMirage]

The quality of the models, the animations, the camera movement has been greatly done along with the explanation together makes this video yet another masterpiece from Jared Owen.

[rafaelcruzs]

I can't help but think the names "Perseverance" and "Ingenuity" are very poetic with our current situation with space science.

[jeffery]

Some small but important details missed:
When assembled into the back shell/heat shield, the entire... we might called it "reentry vehicle" maintained an perfect symmtrical gravity center on geometry, convenient for the Cruise Stage to make control of vehicle's attitude.
But when reentrying, the reentry vehicle needs an slightly asymmtrical CG to maintaining an naturally AoA (if symmtrical, there's no AoA, the vehicle will tend to maintaing lined up with flying vectors) to creating hypersonic lift, so that it can controlled the descent trajectory via aerodynamic control.
To do that, just before reentry, two bob-weights on the back shell will be jettingsoned, so that the CG will moving sideways to created the required asymmtrical. Then after reentry, another four bob-weights will be jettingsoned to moving the CG back to the centerline, convenient for the parachute deploying.

[juicyanimator]

This is one of the best explanations AND animating at the same time? AWESOME!!! Keep it up!