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PIA22905: Jezero Crater Flyover
This animation, constructed using data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, provides an airborne perspective of the Mars 2020 landing site and its exploration area at Jezero Crater.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars 2020 
 Instrument:  HiRISE 
 Product Size:  1038 x 706 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  NASA 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22905.tif (1.084 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22905.jpg (69.43 kB)  

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This animation, constructed using stereo imaging data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, provides an airborne perspective of the Mars 2020 landing site and its exploration area at Jezero Crater. Mars 2020 is expected to land to the southeast of an ancient river delta, a fan-shaped feature inside the northeast rim of Jezero Crater that provides solid evidence of a river and lake system active in and around the crater billions of years ago. The solid white line on the surface indicates a path the rover could take during its prime mission.

More information about Mars 2020 is online at https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ and https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020/.

The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Image Addition Date:
2018-12-13