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PIA24427: HiRISE Views Perseverance After Landing
The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image of the Perseverance rover on Feb. 24, 2021.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 Instrument:  HiRISE 
 Product Size:  1930 x 1008 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  University of Arizona 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA24427.tif (5.839 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA24427.jpg (312.8 kB)  

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The High-Resolution Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) took this image of the Perseverance rover on Feb. 24, 2021. The false-color image shows a ring of blast marks where thrusters from the rover's descent stage blew away dust during landing on Feb. 18, 2021.

By rolling MRO to the side (18 degrees for this image) as it passes over Perseverance every few days, the mission team enables HiRISE to see the rover. Perseverance is about 10 feet by 9 feet (3 by 2.7 meters) in size and is about 180 miles (290 kilometers) away from HiRISE in this image.

MRO's mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the spacecraft. The University of Arizona in Tucson provided and operates HiRISE.

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

Image Addition Date:
2021-03-04