The Mars 2020 mission is landing at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) with opening of the “Roving with Perseverance” roadshow this weekend.

The Rocket Center is the only location in the Southeast to host the roadshow, which includes full-size “twin” models of NASA’s Perseverance rover and the history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The Rocket Center is the first site in the country to receive an enhanced exhibit that includes a model of the Mars Ascent Vehicle.

Members of the Mars 2020 mission team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and Marshall Space Flight Center will be at the Rocket Center Saturday and Sunday for special presentations throughout the day. The Rocket Center’s museum education team also has hands-on, Mars-themed activities planned for the Spark!Lab invention center both Saturday and Sunday.

On Saturday at 7 p.m., the INTUITIVE® Planetarium will host Dr. Stanley Do, a member of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Operations Team at JPL. Dr. Do will lead a guided tour of the Martian surface using images gathered since Perseverance landed on the Red Planet in February 2021. The planetarium show is free and first-come, first-serve.

The “Roving with Perseverance” roadshow will be on display through February. Tickets may be reserved at rocketcenter.com.