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Oct 5, 2024 · Week 2. (Feb. 21 - 27, 2021) Week 1. (Feb. 14 - 20, 2021) Raw images of Mars taken by the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars helicopter in Jezero Crater.
- Taking The Long View
- Closer to Home
- Even Closer
- Volcanic Grains?
- First Sample Attempt
- In The Wind
Before the rover landed, the Perseverance team knew that Jezero crater looked like the dry basin of an ancient lake, with a river delta flowing into it. The prospect of finding preserved lake floor sediments made the site good for searching for past life, one of the mission’s primary goals. Perseverance took this snapshot March 17 of a steep slope ...
Even eroded outcrops close to Perseverance’s landing site look like they had a watery history. This image of a remnant of part of the delta rising out of the crater floor was taken with Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z camera February 22. “Many of us expected these outcrops to be quite uninteresting, based on orbital data,” Stack Morgan says. But images fr...
Perseverance is taking close-ups of the rocks around it too. This closeup image of a rock nicknamed “Foux” was taken July 11 using the WATSON camera on the end of the rover’s robotic arm. The area in the image is only about 4 centimeters by 3 centimeters. The textures in this image are fascinating, as are the “crazy red coatings” that are more purp...
Perseverance has also found evidence of igneous, or volcanic, rocks on Jezero’s crater floor. That wasn’t surprising — observations from orbit suggested that volcanic rocks should be there, and scientists hoped to pick up some to help researchers back on Earth figure out the rocks’ absolute ages. Right now, the timing of past events on Mars is base...
That same rock carried more surprises when the rover team tried to drill into it August 6. The drill worked perfectly, to the team’s elation. “One of the most complex robotic systems ever designed and executed worked perfectly with no faults the first time,” Stack Morgan says. “We were like ‘Oh my god, this is amazing.’” But when they looked inside...
Mars may have had lakes and rivers in its past, but today the dry, dusty landscape is shaped mostly by wind (SN: 7/14/20). Perseverance has seen a number of dust devils and windstorms sweep through Jezero crater as a beautiful reminder of how environments are always changing, even on a dried-up planet like Mars. “We often think of Mars as this barr...
This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, the rover's zoomable pair of cameras. The picture was stitched together on Earth from 142 individual images. Nasa/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSS ...
Mar 3, 2021 · Nasa's Perseverance rover landed on Mars at 20:55 GMT on 18 February after almost seven months travelling from Earth. Since then, it has sent back some amazing images from around its landing site ...
Feb 12, 2021 · This image is the first photograph ever taken from the surface of Mars. It was taken on July 20, 1976, by the Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down on the planet. NASA. A fleet of robotic ...
Mar 10, 2021 · A raw image of the Martian surface below the Perseverance rover captured on Feb. 24, 2021, the fourth day of the mission. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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Dec 23, 2021 · Published Dec 23, 2021. NASA's Perseverance rover spent much of 2021 capturing incredible photos of Mars, and with the year nearly over, the organization's now looking back at some of Perseverance's best work. Throughout the years, humans have sent numerous robots to Mars in hopes of learning more about the Red Planet.
