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NASA’s Record-Setting Perseverance Rover Team

Description Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars mission team gather in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with a certificate from Guinness World Records marking the rover distance record on the Red Planet. Positioned in front of the team is OPTIMISM (Operational Perseverance Twin for Integration of Mechanisms and Instruments […]

NASA’s Record-Setting Perseverance Rover Team

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover team has broken a record by driving the greatest distance on the Red Planet, as confirmed by Guinness World Records. The team, based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, celebrated the milestone with a certificate from the prestigious organization. Perseverance, built and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is run by the California Institute of Technology, has been exploring Mars as part of the agency's Mars Exploration Program.

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