How big is the Mars rover Perseverance?
3 m long · 9.8 ft
The rover is about three meters long — car-sized.
Average person 1.7 m
Mars rover Perseverance 3 m
Compared with things you know
- The Mars rover Perseverance is about 20× the height of a Smartphone Smartphone: 15 cm
- The Mars rover Perseverance is about 1.8× the height of an average person Average person: 1.7 m
- The Mars rover Perseverance is about 1.5× the height of a basketball player Basketball player: 2 m
- The Mars rover Perseverance is about 1.5× the height of a door Door: 2.03 m
Think you could size it by eye? The Mars rover Perseverance is one of the objects in Sizedle.
Similar space
- Apollo Lunar Module 7 m tall 23 ft
- Hubble Space Telescope 13.2 m long 43.3 ft
- Chelyabinsk meteor 19 m across 62.3 ft
- James Webb sunshield 21 m long 68.9 ft
- Space Shuttle orbiter 37.2 m long 122 ft
- Falcon 9 rocket 70 m tall 230 ft