After Dark: Mars!

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been hard at work exploring the Red Planet hundreds of millions of miles from our planet. Here on Earth you can experience a full-scale, lifelike model and some out-of-this world programs starting with tonight’s After Dark.

Since landing on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, Perseverance has been hunting for signs of ancient microbial life in order to collect and store samples of Martian rock and sediment to be retrieved by planned future missions for closer study on Earth. Join NASA Jet Propulsion Lab scientists and engineers to learn about the mission, the data the rover is collecting, their findings, the possibility of life on Mars, and the engineering and technology behind the rover.

The Mars Perseverance Model is on loan from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of their Roving with Perseverance tour.

Editor's Note: We originally listed this for 2/24 in error.