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by pauldino 2147 days ago
The Perseverance mass is just for the rover, but there's a few other components that get it to Mars and on to the surface (the cruise stage, sky crane, etc).

I can't seem to find the Mars 2020 numbers but for MSL (which should be similar) the overall launch mass was 3839 kg of which 899kg was the Curiosity rover itself.

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It appears Tianwen rover is only about 200-300 kg, but their orbiter is massive at 3000+ kg.