NASA's Perseverance rover gets stunning view of big Mars crater from slippery slope (video, photos)

[Admin]

NASA's Perseverance rover took a break from its Mars mountaineering expedition recently to survey its old stomping grounds.

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[Rob77]

Love seeing these images from the red planet, especially the intricacies of the Rover design.
The colour chart on the body is interesting, i'm speculating it's a visual indicator on UV stability of ink/paint on Mars?

 

[24launch]

Love seeing these images from the red planet, especially the intricacies of the Rover design.
The colour chart on the body is interesting, i'm speculating it's a visual indicator on UV stability of ink/paint on Mars?

@Rob77, the color charts are for white balance / color calibration for the images.

I love seeing these photos too! Living in Arizona *many* look like the deserts here, but many look more like they could be in places like Northern Africa, like the one in this article.

I remember as a child I would get the big NASA photo books from the college library (I was still in elementary school) and just scour over the then ONLY photos we had of the surface from the Viking landers. Just trying to imagine what it would look like to be standing there.

Now we get these amazing photos including blue sunsets and shots of Earth in the evening/morning skies.

Not surprisingly one of my fav books and movies is The Martian!

 

[MHF]

A NASA man commented on the panorama claiming, "If you look at the right side of the mosaic, you begin to get an idea what we're dealing with," he added. "Mars didn't want to make it easy for anyone to get to the top of this ridge." And yet the picture shows the LEFT side of the crater wall MUCH steeper than the right wall. What gives?