"Roving with Perseverance" on display at the Edelman Planetarium

While NASA’s Perseverance rover is hard at work exploring Mars hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, a 1/10th scale model has found a temporary home at the Edelman Planetarium! Since landing on Mars on February 18, 2021, Perseverance has been hunting for signs of ancient microbial life to collect and store samples of Martian rock and sediment to be retrieved by planned future missions for closer study on Earth.

Get a close-up look at Perseverance’s six-wheeled look-alike in our desktop-sized model, take a selfie on Mars with our Perseverance and Ingenuity Selfie Station, and get a feel for the size of Perseverance with a full-scale model of one of its wheels.

The “Roving with Perseverance” collection will be on display from late September through mid-March 2023. The exhibit is free and located in the Science Hall atrium. Come and see it before it drives away.