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: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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