Perseverance (Mars rover)
3 m (9.843 ft)
Body length (arm not included)
NASA's car-sized Mars rover, measured without its robotic arm. About 3 m (10 ft) long, not counting the arm.
Published
How big is that?
3 m is 1.7 times an adult man and 11% of a blue whale.
Perseverance is the smallest of the 39 Cosmic Scale objects, and the 32nd smallest of the 109 objects across all three SizeItUp games.
Closest in size from the other games: Woolly mammoth (Adult male) (Prehistoric Giants), 2.8 m tall and African bush elephant (Adult male) (Prehistoric Giants), 3.2 m tall.
Size comparison
To scale, smallest to largest: Perseverance in orange beside the Cosmic Scale objects nearest in size, in teal.
| Object | Size | vs Perseverance |
|---|---|---|
| Perseverance (Mars rover) | 3 m long | – |
| Voyager's dish (High-gain antenna)The antenna that still talks to Earth from interstellar space. | 3.66 m across | 1.2× bigger |
| Apollo Lunar ModuleThe spidery lander that carried astronauts to the Moon's surface, legs extended. | 7.04 m tall | 2.3× bigger |
In other units
| Centimetres | 300 |
|---|---|
| Metres | 3 |
| Inches | 118.1 |
| Feet | 9.843 |
| Yards | 3.281 |
How it's measured
Body length (arm not included). NASA.
Sources
- science.nasa.gov: Length 10 feet (3 meters).
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Could you have guessed it by eye?
Perseverance is one of the objects in Cosmic Scale, a daily size comparison game: you stretch a shape to the size you think is right beside one you know.