NASA's Mars Perseverance rover sends new self-portrait from the red planet
The rover’s sixth selfie was built from 61 images and shows ancient terrain that scientists say may include some of Mars’s oldest rocks.
- On Tuesday, NASA released a 61-image selfie captured by the Perseverance rover on March 11 at Lac de Charmes, marking the rover's farthest western point since landing on Mars over five years ago.
- Perseverance is conducting its fifth science campaign, the Northern Rim Campaign, to investigate ancient igneous rocks; the Arethusa outcrop contains minerals that formed before Jezero Crater itself.
- Using its Mastcam-Z camera, the rover captured a 46-image panorama of Arbot on April 5, revealing massive megabreccia fragments likely hurled by an impact on Isidis Planitia about 3.9 billion years ago.
- Project scientist Katie Stack Morgan, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, called the study of these ancient rocks 'a whole new ballgame,' while mission managers confirm Perseverance remains in 'great shape' extending into ultramarathon drive distances.
- Having traveled almost 26 miles, the rover plans to drive south toward Gardevarri, where clear exposures of olivine-bearing rocks will provide further insights into Mars's early geological history.
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NASA rover stuns in new selfie from Mars with sweeping backdrop of red planet
NASA's Perseverance rover has snapped a stunning selfie on the surface of Mars at the most westerly point the vehicle has reached since touching down more than five years ago.The composite image, stitched together from 61 separate photographs, was taken at the site dubbed "Lac de Charmes" on March 11, during the mission's 1,797th Martian day.The rover had just finished grinding into a rocky formation called "Arathusa" when the photograph was cap…
NASA's Perseverance rover is positively glowing in its new selfie on Mars
Perched along the rugged western rim of Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover snapped a dramatic new selfie revealing ancient Martian terrain, fractured cliffs and clues to the Red Planet's distant past.
NASA's rover Perseverance arrived on Mars in February 2021 to look for signs of life and collect Martian samples.Since then, such a robotic instrument has discovered the origin of strange green spots, found a rocky formation shaped like mushroom, taken panoramic images of the surface, broken the record of distance traveled, and even taken selfies.Now, half a month after sharing the last 360o view that captures the edge of the Jezero crater, the …
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