PIA24425: Black and White: Smoke Plume from Perseverance's Descent Stage
This image from one of the rear Hazcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, shows a smoke plume from the crashed descent stage that lowered the rover to the Martian surface.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars 2020 Rover 
 Spacecraft:  Perseverance
 Instrument:  Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020) 
 Product Size:  3222 x 2002 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA24425.tif (2.836 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA24425.jpg (252.7 kB)  

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This image from one of the rear Hazard Cameras, or Hazcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, shows a smoke plume from the crashed descent stage that lowered the rover to the Martian surface. This image was taken within a minute or two after the rover landed on February 18, 2021.

JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

For more information about the mission, go to: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2021-02-24