Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission by NASA's Mars Exploration Program that includes the rover Perseverance and the small robotic helicopter Ingenuity.

It will cache sample containers along its route for retrieval by a potential future Mars sample-return mission.

The rover also employs 19 cameras and two microphones, allowing for audio recording of the Martian environment.

The mission will seek signs of habitable conditions on Mars in the ancient past, and will also search for evidence – or biosignatures – of past microbial life, and water.