Mission Facts
Launch Window. July 17 – Aug. 5, 2020
Launch Location. Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Landing. Feb. 18, 2021
Landing Site. Jezero Crater, Mars
Mission Duration. At least one Mars year (about 687 Earth days)
To be part of NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission, you can sign up to send your name along for the ride.
Sign up to Send Your Name here. Enter your name and country and submit it to our site to get your Boarding Pass. If you’d like to join our “Frequent Flyer Program” and receive a notification when the next mission is coming, you can add your email to the form. However, your email is not required.
All submitted names are reviewed, approved and then etched onto a microchip. The microchip is placed aboard the Mars 2020 rover, which will land on Mars.
An image of the final chip will be put on the Mars 2020 Send Your Name to Mars homepage, and the Mars 2020 mission homepage after it is installed on the rover, sometime in the Spring of 2020.