Next time you visit EPCOT, check out the Perseverance Mars Rover Display outside of Mission: SPACE, created by a partnership between Walt Disney Imagineering and NASA.
The Details
For this project, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory provided images captured by Perseverance to use as a reference for the Imagineers, along with a 3D print file to recreate sample tubes used on Mars
NASA also loaned a prototype wheel of the Perseverance rover to create tread marks identical to those currently on Mars.
Mission: SPACE is a space exploration-themed pavilion and attached centrifugal motion simulator attraction that simulates what an astronaut might experience aboard a spacecraft on a mission to Mars, so this is the perfect location for this Perseverance display.
About Perseverance
The Perseverance Rover was launched from Earth on July 30, 2020, and landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.
It’s mission is to seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.
Perseverance is currently exploring the Jezero Crater on Mars.
