After traveling 146.3 million miles, the NASA Perseverance rover entered Mars’s atmosphere and successfully touched down in February 2021. The vehicle will be exploring the red planet with some help from advanced Thuringian technology: Jenoptik AG contributed three cutting-edge lenses that took the first pictures of Mars after the landing. Jena-Optronik GmbH, for its part, provided high-precision sensors that will help to bring the first samples of Martian soil back to Earth.
