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PIA26579: Old Glory on the Red Planet
This close-up view of the United States flag plate on NASA's Perseverance was acquired on June 28, 2025, by the WATSON imager on the turret at the end of the rover's Mars robotic arm.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars 2020 Rover 
 Spacecraft:  Perseverance
 Instrument:  Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) 
 Product Size:  2008 x 2035 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA26579.tif (5.564 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA26579.jpg (201.1 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This close-up view of the United States flag plate on NASA's Perseverance was acquired on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of its mission to Mars), by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) imager on the turret at the end of the rover's Mars robotic arm.

This flag artwork is located on an aluminum plate mounted on the base of Perseverance's remote sensing mast.

WATSON, part of an instrument called SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals), was built by Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) in San Diego and is operated jointly by MSSS and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

JPL, which is managed for the agency by Caltech, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.

For more about Perseverance: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Image Addition Date:
2025-07-01