NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance snaps a selfie, other ‘stunning’ photos

Henriettajsmith
2 min readFeb 20, 2021

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After a seven-month, 300 million mile journey to the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back the first high-definition color pictures of Mars, including a selfie.

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On Friday, NASA released a photo of the rover in mid-descent as it was suspended under the sky crane moments before it touched down on the Martian surface.

“This is something that we’ve never seen before. It was stunning. The team was awestruck. Just a feeling of victory that we were able to capture these,” said Aaron Stehura, one of the leads on the entry, landing and descent team.

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Two more images taken with a 20-megapixel camera show a wide shot of the landscape and a close-up of the rover’s front right wheel with rocks nearby. These are the first color images from the surface of Mars.

“Both images the team just went crazy for,” said Pauline Hwang, assistant strategic mission manager. “The science team immediately started looking at all those rocks and zooming in and going ‘what is that?”

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One of the questions we’ll first as is whether these rocks represent a volcanic or sedimentary origin. Both would be equally exciting to the team.”

Perseverance’s primary mission is to search for microbial signs of life and its landing spot in Jezero Crater was hand-picked for that goal. It’s an ancient river delta that is marked by steep cliffs, sand dunes and large boulders.

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