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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Two holes are visible in the rock, nicknamed Rochette, from which NASA's Perseverance rover obtained its first core samples.
PIA24840:
Rochette After Perseverance Sampling
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its PIXL instrument to analyze the Bellegarde abrasion target, revealing salt minerals.
PIA24835:
PIXL Image of Salts in Bellegarde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its WATSON camera took take eight images of a rock abraded by a tool on the rover's robotic arm. The images were taken on August 27, 2021.
PIA24770:
WATSON's View of Bellegarde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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These abrasion targets, nicknamed Guillaumes and Bellegarde, are from the first and second rocks drilled by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. These images were taken by the rover's Mastcam-Z camera system.
PIA24769:
Side-by-Side Abrasion Patches for Guillaumes and Bellegarde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its abrasion tool to grind down the rock surface at this target, nicknamed Bellegarde, on August 29, 2021.
PIA24768:
Abrasion Patch Bellegarde
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover took this image of the Martian rock nicknamed Rochette on Aug. 27, 2021, shortly after it abraded a circular patch known as Bellegarde.
PIA24839:
Abrasion Patch on Rochette
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on Sept. 4, 2021, confirmed that the rover had retained a rock core in the sample tube held in the drill at the end of its robotic arm.
PIA24832:
Confirmation of Montdenier Sample in Perseverance's Drill
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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On Aug. 27, 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover captured this image of the science-instrument-laden turret at the end of its robotic arm getting close to the rock nicknamed Rochette.
PIA24831:
Perseverance Gets to Know Rochette
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows a core collected from a basaltic rock during a test of the Perseverance rover's Sampling and Caching System at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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Cored-Rock Sample From Perseverance Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Sample tube number 266 was used to collect the first sample of Martian rock by NASA's Perseverance rover. The laser-etched serial number helps science team identify the tubes and their contents.
PIA24808:
Perseverance Sample Tube 266
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This sealed titanium sample tube contains Perseverance's first cored sample of Mars rock. The rover's Sampling and Caching System Camera (known as CacheCam) captured this image.
PIA24807:
Sealing in Perseverance's First Sample
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance's first cored-rock sample of Mars rock is seen inside its titanium container tube in this image taken by the rover's Sampling and Caching System Camera (known as CacheCam).
PIA24806:
Perseverance's First Cored Mars Rock in Sample Tube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-02 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The drill hole from Perseverance's second sample-collection attempt can be seen, in this composite of two images taken on Sept. 1, 2021, by one of the Perseverance rover's navigation cameras.
PIA24805:
Perseverance's Navigation Camera Captures Sample Borehole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-02 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This Sept. 1, 2021 image from NASA's Perseverance rover shows a sample tube with its cored-rock contents inside.
PIA24804:
Sample Tube in Perseverance's Drill With Rock Core
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-02 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Taken Sept. 1, 2021 by Mastcam-Z after Perseverance's sample-coring activities, this image shows the rover's drill with no cored rock sample evident in the sample tube.
PIA24803:
Perseverance's Drill After Cleaning Operation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will abrade the rock at the center of this image, allowing scientists and engineers to assess whether it would hold up to the rover's more powerful sampling drill.
PIA24767:
Perseverance Team Selects a New Rock to Abrade
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This annotated image depicts the ground tracks of NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter since arriving on Mars on February 18, 2021.
PIA24797:
Ground Tracks of NASA's Perseverance and Ingenuity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This composite image, made by the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on August 8, 2021, shows the hole in a Martian rock where the rover attempted to collect its first sample.
PIA24749:
Laser Shots at Roubion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This composite image of Perseverance's first borehole on Mars was generated using multiple images taken by the rover's WATSON imager.
PIA24796:
WATSON Image of Perseverance's First Borehole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on August 6, 2021, shows that sample collection tube No. 233 is empty. It is one of the pieces of data showing that the rover did not collect any Martian rock during its first attempt to core a sample.
PIA24742:
Perseverance Sample Tube No. 233
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This enhanced-color image from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows sample tube inside the coring bit after the August 6, 2021, coring activity was completed.
PIA24799:
Sample Tube in Perseverance's Coring Drill
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The drill hole from Perseverance's first sample-collection attempt can be seen, along with the shadow of the rover, in this image taken by one of the rover's navigation cameras.
PIA24798:
Perseverance's Navigation Camera Image of First Borehole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image taken by one of the hazard cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on August 6, 2021, shows the hole drilled in what the rover's science team calls a paver rock in preparation for the mission's first attempt to collect a sample from Mars.
PIA24795:
Perseverance's Drill Hole for First Sample Collection Attempt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-02 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to create this panorama of its first drill site. Scientists will be looking for a rock to drill somewhere in this location.
PIA24765:
Perseverance's Office on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This wide view of Mars' Jezero Crater was taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on July 15, 2021.
PIA24745:
An Expanse for Perseverance to Explore
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows the area on Mars from which NASA's Perseverance rover will collect its first rock sample.
PIA24746:
Perseverance Scouts First Sampling Location
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This series of images shows NASA's Perseverance rover inspecting and sealing a witness sample tube on June 21, 2021, as it prepares to collect its first sample of Martian rock and sediment.
PIA24751:
Witness Tube in Perseverance Sample Caching System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover took these zoomed-in images of a layered outcrop nicknamed Artuby on June 17, 2021, from a little more than a third of a mile (615 meters) away.
PIA24747:
SuperCam Image of Artuby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of a Martian vista in Jezero Crater, made from smaller individual images, was taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on July 3, 2021.
PIA24744:
The End of One Drive by Perseverance on the Floor of Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This video from July 1, 2021, shows scenes from the longest autonomous drive yet for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which landed on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24743:
Perseverance Rover Camera View of Long Autonomous Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks back toward its tracks on July 1, 2021, after driving autonomously 358 feet (109 meters), its longest autonomous drive to date.
PIA24741:
Perseverance Looks Back After a Long Autonomous Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-20 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This data shows chemicals detected within a single rock on Mars by PIXL, one of the instruments on the end of the robotic arm aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24762:
PIXL's First Chemical Maps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-20 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover reached out to examine rocks in an area on Mars nicknamed the Cratered Floor Fractured Rough area in this image captured on July 10, 2021.
PIA24748:
Perseverance's Arm Over Paver Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-20 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this close-up of a rock target nicknamed Foux, using its WATSON camera on the end of the rover's robotic arm. The image was taken July 11, 2021.
PIA24728:
WATSON Views Foux
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-01 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Vandi Verma, an engineer who now works with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, is seen here working as a driver for the Curiosity rover. The special 3D glasses she's wearing are still used by rover drivers to easily detect changes in terrain.
PIA24724:
3D Glasses Used for Rover Driving
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-01 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This computer simulation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as it carried out its first drive using its auto-navigation feature, which allows it to avoid rocks and other hazards without input from engineers back on Earth.
PIA24723:
Computer Simulation of Perseverance's First Autonav Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-01 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance relies on left and right navigation cameras. The view seen here combines the perspective of two cameras rover during the rover's first drive using AutoNav, it's auto-navigation function.
PIA24722:
Perseverance's First Autonav Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here in 3D using images taken June 6, 2021, by the left and right Mastcam-Z cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24670:
Ingenuity Helicopter in 3D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This computer simulation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover taking its first selfie, on April 6, 2021. The point of view of the rover's WATSON camera is included to show how each of the images were taken before being stitched together into the selfie.
PIA24669:
Computer Simulation of Rover Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This composite image of Jezero Crater's Delta Scarp was generated using data from the Perseverance rover's Remote Microscopic Imager and Mastcam-Z camera.
PIA24684:
Two Views of Delta Scarp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance scientist Vivian Sun was excited to see certain geologic features in imagery of Jezero Crater's Delta Scarp because they provide evidence of a watery past.
PIA24683:
Mars' Delta Scarp From More Than a Mile Away
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here at the end of its fourth flight, on April 30, 2021. This enhanced video shows the dust kicked up by the helicopter's spinning rotors.
PIA24666:
Ingenuity Kicks Up Dust Cloud on Fourth Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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JPL's Abigail Allwood (second from left), principal investigator of the PIXL instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, conducts fieldwork with other scientists in Greenland.
PIA24668:
Abigail Allwood Doing Fieldwork in Greenland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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JPL's Abigail Allwood, principal investigator of the PIXL instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, examines rocks in Greenland.
PIA24667:
Abigail Allwood in Greenland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is viewed here through the Remote Microscopic Imager camera, part of the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover. This image was taken on May 14, 2021.
PIA24665:
Perseverance's SuperCam Views the Ingenuity Helicopter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-09 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z imaging system captured this 360-degree panorama at Van Zyl Overlook, where the rover parked during Ingenuity helicopter's first flights.
PIA24663:
Mastcam-Z's 360-degree View of Van Zyl Overlook
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of Ingenuity was taken on May 23, 2021, the day after its sixth flight, by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24599:
Ingenuity at Third Airfield
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter lands with a soft bounce after its fifth flight on May 7, 2021. The images in this GIF were captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance rover.
PIA24649:
Mastcam-Z GIF Show Ingenuity's Fifth Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Close up image of Perseverance rover's deck shows a black plate with the three chips and a line drawing showing Mars and Earth with the Sun in the middle.
PIA24615:
Closeup of Send Your Name to Mars Chips on Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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After the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance rover captured Ingenuity's third flight on April 25, the frames of the video that was stitched together were then reprojected to optimize viewing in an anaglyph.
PIA24522:
Ingenuity Flies in 3D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used the WATSON camera on the end of its robotic arm to conduct a focus test on May 9, 2021, the 78th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24641:
WATSON Takes a Closer Look
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover viewed these rocks with its Mastcam-Z imager on April 27, 2021.
PIA24627:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Images Intriguing Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of Santa Cruz, a hill within Jezero Crater, on April 29, 2021.
PIA24546:
Mastcam-Z Views Santa Cruz on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's was captured after landing on May 7, 2021, by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the agency's Perseverance rover. This was the helicopter's fifth flight, and the first time the helicopter flew to a new landing site.
PIA24648:
Mastcam-Z Views Ingenuity After Fifth Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's fifth flight was captured on May 7, 2021, by one of the navigation cameras aboard the agency's Perseverance rover. This was the first time it flew to a new landing site.
PIA24647:
Ingenuity's Successful Fifth Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-30 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (above center to the right) is viewed by one of the hazard cameras aboard the Perseverance rover during the helicopter's fourth flight on April 30, 2021.
PIA24642:
Perseverance's Hazard Cameras View Ingenuity's Fourth Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers over Jezero Crater during its second experimental flight test on April 22, 2021. The imagery was captured by the Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z imager.
PIA24595:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Second Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 19, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. This video features only the moments of takeoff and the landing.
PIA24583:
Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity Taking Off and Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-20 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shot video of Ingenuity helicopter's flight, presented here in side-by-side processed versions that have both been enhanced to show a dust plume swirling during takeoff and again on landing.
PIA24589:
Enhanced Video Shows Dust During Ingenuity's Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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In this footage captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the Perseverance Mars rover on April 19, 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter lifts of from Mars' surface, hovers for 30 seconds, then touches back down.
PIA24521:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity's First Full Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers over the Martian surface as viewed by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the Perseverance Mars rover on April 19, 2021. The helicopter climbed to an altitude of 10 feet (3 meters), hovering for 30 seconds.
PIA24590:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity Hovering
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter achieves powered, controlled flight for the first time on another planet, hovering for several seconds before touching back down on April 19, 2021.
PIA24586:
Perseverance's Navcam View of Ingenuity's First Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image was taken after the first flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, and the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. It was captured by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, on April 19, 2021.
PIA24550:
Ingenuity's First Flight Recorded by Mastcam-Z
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image from NASA's Perseverance rover shows the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter right after it successfully completed a high-speed spin-up test. It was captured by the Mastcam-Z instrument on Perseverance on April 16, 2021.
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Ingenuity Right After a Spin
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The Ingenuity helicopter's carbon fiber blades can be seen spinning up to in this video taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on April 8, 2021, the 48th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24549:
Mastcam-Z Captures Ingenuity's Blades Spinning
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This animation shows each step of the Ingenuity helicopter deploying from the belly of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover from March 26 to April 3, 2021. The final image shows the helicopter on the ground after the rover drove about 13 feet (4 meters) away.
PIA24548:
Ingenuity's Complete Deployment
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The Ingenuity helicopter's solar panel charges six lithium-ion batteries inside the helicopter. The small amount of dust on the panel has no adverse effects on the helicopter's power.
PIA24545:
Mars Helicopter's Solar Array as Seen by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter does a slow spin test of its blades, on April 8, 2021. This image was captured by the Navigation Cameras on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24582:
Ingenuity Tests its Blades
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on the following sol, April 8, 2021.
PIA24581:
Ingenuity's Blades Are Released
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken by the WATSON camera on the rover's robotic arm on April 6, 2021.
PIA24542:
Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen here in a close-up taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard the Perseverance rover. This image was taken on April 5, the 45th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24547:
Mastcam-Z Gives Ingenuity a Close-up
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Photo of a rover wheel with etched illustration inside, featuring two sets of rover wheel tracks, one straight and one twisted.
PIA24552:
Rover DNA Inscription
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Two name plates mounted on the Mars Perseverance rover's robotic arm are visible in this composite image, made from photos taken by the rover's left Navcam on Sol 12 of its mission (March 2, 2021).
PIA24467:
Perseverance Shows Off its Nameplates
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on Mars as viewed by the Perseverance rover's rear Hazard Camera on April 4, 2021, the 44th Martian day, or sol of the mission.
PIA24541:
Ingenuity Deployed on Mars
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 30, 2021, the 39th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24449:
Ingenuity Helicopter is Ready to Drop
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter extends vertically into place after being rotated outward from its horizontal position on the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 29, 2021.
PIA24443:
Ingenuity Goes Vertical
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter swings down, with two of its four legs extended, from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 28, 2021, the 37th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24442:
Ingenuity Swings Down
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter remains on the belly of the Perseverance rover. The helicopter's launch lock, which holds it in place on the rover, has been released.
PIA24441:
Ingenuity Helicopter's Launch Lock is Released
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on the belly of the Perseverance rover, ready to be dropped off at the helicopter's deployment location.
PIA24424:
WATSON Spies Ingenuity on Perseverance Rover's Belly
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The location where NASA's Perseverance rover will observe Ingenuity's attempt at powered controlled flight at Mars is called Van Zyl Overlook.
PIA24435:
Van Zyl Overlook
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These sets of images show doors opening and closing on parts of the Sample Caching System aboard NASA's Perseverance rover.
PIA24497:
Perseverance Sample Caching System Doors
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This image shows the flight zone of NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter flight zone from the perspective of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The flight zone is the area within which the helicopter will fly.
PIA24495:
Rover Point of View of Ingenuity Flight Zone
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The debris shield, a protective covering on the bottom of NASA's Perseverance rover, was released on March 21, 2021. The debris shield protects the agency's Ingenuity helicopter during landing.
PIA24448:
Perseverance Rover Drops its Debris Shield
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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Left Navigation Camera (Navcam) on Mar. 7, 2021 (Sol 16).
PIA23729:
Mars Perseverance Sol 16: Left Navigation Camera (Navcam)
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This image shows a close-up view of the rock target named Maaz from the SuperCam instrument on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. It was taken by SuperCam's Remote Micro-Imager (RMI). Maaz means Mars in the Navajo language.
PIA24493:
SuperCam Close-Up of Maaz
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Combining two images, this mosaic shows a close-up view of the rock target named Yeehgo from the SuperCam instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars.
PIA24492:
SuperCam Close-Up of Yeehgo Target
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Stitched together from five images, this mosaic shows the calibration target for the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars. The component images were taken by SuperCam's remote micro-imager (RMI).
PIA24491:
SuperCam Calibration Target on Mars
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Taken on March 5, 2021, this color-calibrated image from a Navigation Camera aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover shows tracks from the rover's first drive and an area scoured by the Mars 2020 mission's descent stage rockets.
PIA24488:
Rocket Scour and Wheel Prints
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These sets of animated GIFs show seven views of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover wiggling its wheels on March 4, 2021, the day Perseverance completed its first drive on Mars.
PIA24489:
Multiple Views of Perseverance's Wheels Wiggling
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The imagery for this animated gif was taken on March 5, 2021, by a Navigation Camera on NASA's Perseverance rover during its first drive on Mars.
PIA24490:
Perseverance Is Moving Right Along
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From its landing site, Octavia E. Butler Landing, NASA's Perseverance rover can see a remnant of a fan-shaped deposit of sediments known as a delta (the raised area of dark brown rock in the middle ground) with its Mastcam-Z instrument.
PIA24485:
Perseverance View of the Delta in Jezero Crater
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Taken Feb. 22, 2021, this image from the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover shows a target for analysis by the rover's SuperCam instrument.
PIA24484:
A Target for Perseverance's SuperCam
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This image was captured while NASA's Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on March 4, 2021. One of Perseverance's Hazcams captured this image as the rover completed a short traverse and turn from its landing site in Jezero Crater.
PIA24482:
Perseverance Hazcam First Drive
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory driving the agency's Perseverance rover use visualization software to plan how the rover moves around on Mars. This clip from their visualization shows the rover's first drive on March 4, 2021.
PIA24481:
Perseverance Drive Visualization
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This simulation shows the motions the robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover carried out during its first two-hour checkout on Mars. This simulation does not run in real-time.
PIA24332:
Simulation of Perseverance Arm Movement
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This set of images shows part of the deployment of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) wind sensors on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, taken by the rover's Navigation Cameras on Feb. 28, 2021.
PIA24339:
Perseverance's Weather Sensors Deployed
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NASA's Perseverance rover wiggles one of its wheels in this set of images obtained by the rover's left Navigation Camera on March 4, 2021.
PIA24340:
Perseverance Wiggles a Wheel
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This set of images shows parts of the robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover flexing and turning during its first checkout after landing on Mars.
PIA24338:
Flexing Perseverance's Robotic Arm
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This image was taken during the first drive of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars on March 4, 2021.
PIA24487:
Perseverance Is Roving on Mars
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This image was taken by the Lander Vision System Camera (LCAM) of NASA's Perseverance rover. The camera served as part of the Terrain-Relative Navigation system, a kind of autopilot that helps the spacecraft avoid hazards as it lands.
PIA24447:
LCAM Views the Heat Shield After Being Released from Mars 2020 Spacecraft
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