Perseverance Sol 354
Explanation:
This Navcam mosaic from
Perseverance looks out
over the car-sized rover's deck, across the floor of Jezero
crater on Mars.
Frames used to construct the mosaic view
were captured on mission sol 354.
That corresponds to Earth calendar date February 17, 2022, nearly
one
Earth year after the rover's landing.
With a mass of over 1,000 kilograms, six-wheeled
Perseverance is the heaviest rover to
touch down on Mars.
During its first year of exploration
the rover has collected six (so far)
rock
core samples
for later return to planet Earth,
served as the base station
for Ingenuity, the first helicopter on Mars,
and
tested
MOXIE
(Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment),
converting some of the Red PlanetБs thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere
into oxygen.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
