The NASA Perseverance Rover on Mars purchased this image using the left Mastcam-Z camera on Thursday. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located up on the rover mast. Photo courtesy of NASA License photography
Perseverance documents the Martian surface. Photo courtesy of NASA License photography
The Martian surface is documented, it is a detail from Perseverance. Photo courtesy of NASA License photography
Navigation cameras aboard the Mars rover captured this view of the rover’s deck on Monday. This view provides a look at the PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-Ray Lithochemistry), one of the instruments on the stacked arm of the rover. Photo courtesy of NASA / JPL-Caltech
This panorama, made by the navigation cameras aboard Perseverance, was sewn together from six individual images after they were sent back to Earth. Subsequent missions, currently under review by NASA in cooperation with the European Space Agency, would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these cached samples and return them to Earth for further analysis. Photo courtesy of NASA / JPL-Caltech
This is the first high-resolution color image sent back by hazard cameras (Hazcams) at the bottom of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after landing on February 18th. License photography
This high-resolution still image from the camera aboard the descent stage is part of a multi-camera video as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched Mars. Photo courtesy of NASA License photography
Perseverance can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere as it descends, with its parachute behind, in this image taken on Thursday by the high-resolution imaging camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The old delta of the river, which is the target of the Perseverance mission, can be seen entering the Jezero crater on the left. Photo courtesy of NASA License photography
An illustration depicts the rover driving in the foreground over the plain of Jezero crater, where the robotic explorer landed safely. Image provided by NASA
An image showing where the Perseverance Mars rover landed is shown during a post-landing upgrade of NASA’s Perseverance Rover mission on February 18 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Photo by Bill Ingalls / NASA | License photography
NASA Rover Perseverance Mars team members monitor the mission as the first images arrive a few moments after the spacecraft successfully reaches Mars. Photo by Bill Ingalls / NASA | License photography
The first photos taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after landing on the Martian surface. A key objective for the mission of Perseverance on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. Photo courtesy of NASA License photography
These computer simulations show the landing of Perseverance on the Martian surface. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet and will be the first mission to collect and hide the rock and Martian rule. Image courtesy of NASA License photography
In this illustration of its descent to Mars, the spacecraft carrying NASA’s Perseverance rover slows down using the traction generated by its motion in the Martian atmosphere. Hundreds of critical events must be executed just in time for the rover to land on Mars safely. Entry, descent and landing, or “EDL”, begins when the spacecraft reaches the top of the Martian atmosphere, traveling at almost 12,500 mph. The cruise stage separates about 10 minutes before entering the atmosphere, leaving the aerosch, which includes the rover and descent stage, to make the trip to the surface. Image courtesy of NASA License photography
An illustration of Perseverance on Mars, released from Earth in July. It is the fifth rover that has successfully landed on Mars and is the first of three that can return rock samples to Earth. Image courtesy of NASA License photography