NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, including the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, launched to space on July 30, 2020 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. After traveling nearly 300 million miles, Perseverance landed inside Mars’ 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. It will spend roughly the next two years searching for signs of past microbial life and possible habitable environments, while also collecting samples that can be returned to Earth by a future mission campaign.