The Insane Engineering of the Perseverance Rover

Perseverance rover on rocky Martian terrain under a hazy sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqqaW8DCc-I

Real Engineering walks through how NASA’s Perseverance rover was built to land on Mars, run on a plutonium RTG, and make oxygen from the thin CO₂ air with MOXIE.

The February 2021 video covers the skycrane, sample caching and the instruments packed into the car-sized rover.

Friday February 19th 2021