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Credit & Copyright: NASA,
JPL-Caltech
Explanation:
Taken on mission sol 180 (August 22) this sharp image from a Hazard
Camera on the Perseverance rover looks out across a rock strewn floor
of Jezero crater on Mars.
At 52.5 centimeters (21 inches) in diameter,
one of the rover's steerable front wheels is at lower left in the frame.
Near center is a large
rock
nicknamed Rochette.
Mission planners don't want to avoid Rochette though.
Instead
Perseverance will be instructed
to reach out
with its 2 meter long robotic arm and
abrade
the rock's surface,
to determine whether it has a consistency
suitable for obtaining a sample, slightly thicker than a pencil,
using the rover's coring bit.
Samples collected by Perseverance would be returned to
Earth by a future Mars mission.
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NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Mars
Publications with words: Mars
See also:
- APOD: 2026 July 29 Á Psyche Receives Gravity Assist from Mars
- APOD: 2026 July 28 Á Barnards Loop over Twin Volcanoes
- APOD: 2026 July 21 Á Turtle Rock on Mars
- APOD: 2026 June 27 Á Mars Marathon by Perseverance
- APOD: 2026 February 22 Á Shadow of a Martian Robot
- APOD: 2026 February 1 Á Galle: Happy Face Crater on Mars
- APOD: 2025 September 28 Á Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks