Panorama of Mars from Perseverance Rover

Panora­ma of Mars from Per­se­ver­ance Rover



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This panora­ma, tak­en on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Nav­i­ga­tion Cam­eras, or Nav­cams, aboard NASA’s Per­se­ver­ance Mars rover, was stitched togeth­er from six indi­vid­ual images after they were sent back to Earth. 

A key objec­tive for Perseverance’s mis­sion on Mars is astro­bi­ol­o­gy, includ­ing the search for signs of ancient micro­bial life. The rover will char­ac­ter­ize the planet’s geol­o­gy and past cli­mate, pave the way for human explo­ration of the Red Plan­et, and be the first mis­sion to col­lect and cache Mar­t­ian rock and regolith.

Sub­se­quent mis­sions, cur­rent­ly under con­sid­er­a­tion by NASA in coop­er­a­tion with ESA (Euro­pean Space Agency), would send space­craft to Mars to col­lect these cached sam­ples from the sur­face and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.

The Mars 2020 Per­se­ver­ance mis­sion is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars explo­ration approach, which includes Artemis mis­sions to the Moon that will help pre­pare for human explo­ration of the Red Planet.

NASA’s Jet Propul­sion Lab­o­ra­to­ry in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia built and man­ages oper­a­tions of the Mars 2020 Per­se­ver­ance rover for NASA.

For more infor­ma­tion about the mis­sion, go to: 

Cred­it: NASA/J­PL-Cal­tech



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