NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover obtained this image on Thursday using its left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the mast of the car. Photo courtesy of NASA | License Photo
Perseverance documents the Mars surface. Photo courtesy of NASA | License Photo
The surface of Mars has been documented and is details from Perseverance. Photo courtesy of NASA | License Photo
The navigation cameras aboard the Mars Rover captured this view on the deck of the Rover on Monday. This view gives a look at PIXL (the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry), one of the instruments on the built-up arm of the Rover. Photo courtesy of NASA / JPL-Caltech
This panorama, made by the navigation cameras aboard Perseverance, was composed of six individual images after being sent back to Earth. Subsequent missions, currently being considered by NASA in collaboration with the European Space Agency, will send spacecraft to Mars to collect these mountainous samples from the surface and return to Earth for in-depth analysis. Photo courtesy of NASA / JPL-Caltech
It is the first high-resolution color resolution returned by the Hazard Cams (Hazcams) at the bottom of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after the February 18 landing. Thanks to NASA | License Photo
This high-resolution still image, from the camera aboard the descent stage, is part of a video taken by multiple cameras while NASA’s Perseverance Rover touched on Mars. Photo courtesy of NASA | License Photo
Persistence can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere in the descending stage, with its parachute behind, in this image taken on Thursday by the high-resolution imaging experiment camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The old river delta, which is the target of the Perseverance mission, can enter from the Jezero crater. Photo courtesy of NASA | License Photo
An illustration shows the rover driving in the foreground across the plain of the Jezero crater, where the robot explorer landed safely. Image courtesy of NASA
An image showing where the Mars Rover perseverance landed is shown during a NASA Perseverance Rover mission after landing Feb. 18 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Photo by Bill Ingalls / NASA | License Photo
Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars robber team watch the mission as the first images arrive moments after the spacecraft successfully touched Mars. Photo by Bill Ingalls / NASA | License Photo
The first photos taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after they landed on the Martian surface. An important goal for Perseverance’s mission to Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. Photo courtesy of NASA | License Photo
These computer simulations show perseverance landing on the Martian surface. The rover will characterize the geology and climate of the planet, and it will pave the way for the exploration of the Red Planet by man and be the first mission to collect Mars rock and regolith. Image courtesy of NASA | License Photo
In this illustration of its descent to Mars, the spacecraft with NASA’s Perseverance Rover slows down slowly using the drag generated by its motion in the Mars atmosphere. Hundreds of critical events must be performed at exactly the right time to land the rover safely on Mars. Access, descent and landing, or ‘EDL’, begin when the spacecraft reaches the top of the Martian atmosphere and travels at almost 12,500 km / h. The sailing stage separates about 10 minutes before it enters the atmosphere and leaves the aeroshell, which encloses the rover and downhill stage, to make the ride to the surface. Image courtesy of NASA | License Photo
An illustration of perseverance on Mars, which was launched from Earth in July. It is the fifth rover that Mars has successfully reached, and is the first of three that can return rock samples to Earth. Image courtesy of NASA | License Photo