Mars seen from space about 3.6 billion years ago, a blue ocean filling its northern lowlands, clouds over the volcanoes and the great canyon

A realistic Mars you can explore

Wake up
on Mars

A real planet, from the ocean it once held to the towns we think will stand on it. Every place is where it truly is, at its true size.

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Ancient Mars
About 3.6 billion years ago
Our world NASA's real heights. Where the water sits is our best estimate of a debated ocean.

Then wake up here

Drop from orbit to one spot on the ground: Jezero Crater, where NASA's Perseverance rover landed.

A rover and two people in spacesuits on the floor of Jezero Crater at dusk, the sky turning blue near the setting Sun

Stand in Jezero

Look around NASA's real 360 photo, travel back to the lake that once filled this crater, then forward to the science town we think will stand here.

Our world: the Jezero science town at dusk. Our best estimate, built on real science.

Stand in Jezero

One spot, three moments

The same place in Jezero Crater, seen at three points in time. Every picture says what it is: real, or our best estimate.

Sunset over a calm lake inside a crater, with a river delta in the distance
Long ago

Lake Jezero

A river runs into a crater lake. The mud it left is why NASA landed here.

Our world
NASA's photo of the crater floor: rust-coloured ground, scattered rocks and low hills on the horizon
Today

Where the rover landed

NASA's own 360 photo from Perseverance's first days on Mars. The ground is untouched.

Real
A small base of soil-covered homes and a lit rover under a starry sky with a green aurora
The future

The science town

Homes buried under the soil for shelter, landed ships, and a green aurora overhead.

Our world

Coming next

Built the same way: real science first, then as beautiful as we can make it.