NASA Perseverance Mars Rover’s View of Record-Breaking Drive | JPL
This video shows the Perseverance Mars Rover’s point of view during a record-breaking drive that occurred June 19, 2025, the 1,540th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Perseverance rover was traveling northbound and covered 1,350.7 feet (411.7 meters) on that sol, over the course of about 4 hours and 24 minutes. This distance eclipsed its previous record of distance traveled in a single sol: 1,140.7 feet (347.7 meters), achieved on April 3, 2023 (Sol 753).
An inset seen to the right of the video shows the rover’s position on an orbital map.
Prior to Perseverance’s arrival at Mars, NASA’s Opportunity rover held the single-sol drive-distance record, having covered 718.5 feet (219 meters) on March 20, 2005 (Sol 410).
The rover tracks seen in the video are from Perseverance’s two previous southbound traverses on May 18 and 19, 2025 (sols 1,509 and 1,510).
This video was created by stitching together 300 image pairs from the rover’s navigation cameras (navcams). The images were captured at the rate of one image every 16 feet (5 meters) for the first third of the traverse, and then one every 3.3 feet (1 meter) for the remaining two-thirds.
The navcam image pairs were combined with rover data on orientation, wheel speed, and steering angle, as well as data from Perseverance’s inertial measurement unit, and placed into a 3D virtual environment. The result is this reconstruction of the rover’s record drive with virtual frames inserted about every 4 inches (0.1 meters) of drive progress.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach. This includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/
Duration: 1 minute, 24 seconds
Release Date: Dec. 17, 2025
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