Monday, May 26, 2025

'Prehistoric' Mars? New NASA Perseverance Rover Image | JPL

'Prehistoric' Mars? New NASA Perseverance Rover Image | JPL

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera on May 25, 2025 (sol 1515), at the local mean solar time of 10:35:28. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.

Pareidolia: Dictionaries describe this term as a human tendency to see recognizable shapes in objects or data that are otherwise not familiar to us.

Learn more about pareidolia and Martian "space oddities:"
https://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/space-oddities/

Celebrating 4+ Years on Mars
Mission Name: Mars 2020
Rover Name: Perseverance
Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for return to Earth.
Launch: July 30, 2020    
Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover: 

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Capture Date: May 25, 2025


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