# Perseverance Rover at Mars: deployment

Canonical ID: `159ba9fa-1ad2-43ce-925d-ec31aee65312`

## Key facts

- **Mission:** Mars 2020
- **Status:** Landed Jezero Crater 2021-02-18; operating. AutoNav drove ~88-90% of its first-Mars-year traverse autonomously (records: 699.9 m no-human-review drive; 411 m single autonomous drive)

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-06-05_

- **Slug:** perseverance-jezero-2021
- **Status:** active
- **Model:** [Perseverance Rover](/models/perseverance-rover.md) (id: `a6ddde8f-d1dc-496d-9168-ab4c6c80ef98`)
- **Company:** [NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory](/companies/nasa-jpl.md) (id: `0c530f36-cb7c-4a57-a152-e75e7ba89352`)
- **Location:** [Mars](/locations/mars.md) (id: `c97e3c40-db5f-437c-a70e-357222f681f6`)
- **First seen:** 2021-02-18T12:00:00.000Z

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (1)

1. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adi3099

## Common questions

### What is the Perseverance Rover deployment at Mars?

Perseverance Rover, built by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is recorded as a deployment at Mars on the DEPLOY registry. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory operates the deployment directly.

### Who operates Perseverance Rover at Mars?

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the manufacturer of Perseverance Rover, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.

### When did the Perseverance Rover deployment at Mars go live?

The deployment is recorded as starting February 18, 2021 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.

### Is the Perseverance Rover deployment at Mars still active?

As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, this deployment is currently operating.

### Have there been incidents at the Perseverance Rover deployment at Mars?

No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.


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