Photo Of The Day: First Color Image From Perseverance
By News & Guts
JEZERO CRATER, MARS - FEBRUARY 18: In this handout image provided by NASA, the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after its landing in the area known as Jezero crater on February 18, 2021 on the planet Mars. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)
The technology, and the picture quality are getting better with each mission to the red planet. The Hill write: ”NASA’s Hallie Gengl described the pictures as “really high resolution” compared to what NASA has seen from rovers on previous missions to Mars.”
It took seven months for the rover to travel from earth to Mars. After a successful landing, Perseverance will spend the next two years gathering data, and hopefully lots more images!
After safely landing on the surface of Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has sent back a never-before-seen view: what it looks like to land on Mars. The rover also returned some beautiful postcards of its landing site. https://t.co/9HAcvthudcpic.twitter.com/GFr1Srwc7c
