Photos: NASA's Perseverance Rover sends back panoramic view of landing site
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover sent back its first high-definition view of its new home on Mars’ Jezero Crater on
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover sent back its first high-definition view of its new home on Mars’ Jezero Crater on February 21, after rotating its mast, or "head," 360 degrees, allowing the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument to capture its first panorama since touching down on the Red Planet. In what was the rover's second panorama ever –the rover's Navigation Cameras captured a 360-degree view– the mission beamed back a Martian surface that appears similar to images captured by previous NASA rover missions.
Published on Feb 26, 2021 04:48 PM IST 8 Photos
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A portion of a panorama made up of individual images taken by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows the Martian landscape on February 20.(NASA / JPL-Caltech via REUTERS)
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The rim of Jezero Crater seen in the first 360-degree panorama taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on February 21. The panorama was stitched together on Earth from 142 individual images taken on Sol 3, the third Martian day of the mission.(NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS)
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A diagram added over the parachute deployed during the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it approached the Martian surface on February 18. Systems engineer Ian Clark used a binary code to spell out “Dare Mighty Things” in the orange and white strips of the 70-foot (21-meter) parachute. He also included the GPS coordinates for the mission's headquarters at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.(NASA / JPL-Caltech via AP)
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A high-resolution still image from a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars. A key objective of Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.(NASA / JPL-Caltech)
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