Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River

After 1,000 Martian days of exploration, NASA’s Perseverance rover is studying rocks that show several eras in the history of a river delta billions of years old. Scientists are investigating this region of Mars, known as Jezero Crater, to see if they can find evidence of ancient life recorded in the rocks. Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley provides a guided tour of a richly detailed panorama of the rover’s location in November 2023, taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument.

Composed of 993 individual images and 2.38 billion pixels, this 360-degree mosaic looks in all directions from a location the rover science team calls “Airey Hill.” Portions of the rover itself are visible in the scene, appearing more distorted toward the edges as a result of the image processing.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS; ESA/DLR/FU-Berlin

[JBaxter-pioj]

To realize we're looking at the landscape of another planet... -phenomenal. Thank you for sharing this information and for continuing the explore all the amazing things in our solar system.

[mrspockito]

Certainly Perseverance is taking on an outstanding ride on Mars 🔴 Congrats to the mission designers and operators at JPL

[xenophagia]

Mind-blowing, and beautiful as always 🤯.
*Go NASA JPL! Go Perseverance!*

[ceylsgx]

Mind-blowing, and beautiful as always .
Go NASA JPL! Go Perseverance!

[Mr.R-xvle]

It makes you feel you're walking on Mars! Amazing stuff.

[kevinsteel]

The fact we have human technology on Mars and we can watch it has to be the coolest thing ever

[j.burton]

Thank you for this! Great work, NASA.

[jasonpierce]

Its amazing to me you guys found ancient river. Congrats JPL 😊

[HansMilling]

I can recommend The Mars Guy here on YouTube, he explains what is going on with Perseverance every week and it is so awesome.

[whitestonex-file]

Great photoes, seems to be like somewhere on earth. Skies, why do we not see the sun and moon? Keep them coming, youre doing great👉😄

[makavelirizla]

Could we or should we try cloud seeding mars atmosphere.. it has a some cloud cover with ice clouds. Maybe this could make it rain and we can see where and how the rain water reacts with martian atmosphere and the surface

[AerialWaviator]

What amazing science Perseverance and Ingenuity are able to gather. Being able to add to the body of knowledge collected by Curiosity and the other Mars rovers prior. Thanks for sharing this update on the general direction that Perseverance and Ingenuity are going to attempt beyond exploring Jezero Crater.
Having Perseverance and Ingenuity explore as a team has been a real bonus, in seeing the various perspectives of the landscape, and of each other.
It would be interesting to hear what NASA/JPL are considering for must haves in terms of tools and capabilities for the next set of rovers to be sent to Mars? (even though it may be some time away, and beyond what the current budget allows)
Mars has so many interesting places and features yet to be seen by humans, so much yet to explore and discover!

[Wanty-oshd]

Woooow nise and so beutifull thnks to sharing❤❤

[vduzdjl]

Perfect for Dakar style rally, once around the equator.

[zakiausthefisherofmen]

i thought there was dust storms on mars? where’s the dust on the rover 🤣🤣🤣 yall slow

[zachariasbennett]

Does the Perseverance rover have a 3D camera on board for it would be lovely to see some of these pictures in 3D.

[glenn_r_frank_author]

Except NASA sent Perseverance to Mars with no way to return samples, before the sample return craft design was even approved, nd now it looks like it is so expensive to send a retrieval mission that it won't happen.

[mrsha]

That was wonderful. As good as being at the bank of this ancient Mars river

[wolf]

Will we ever get any more video like we got for the landing? I'd love to see some.

[rusty]

Come.on nasa, we arent in 1969 anymore people arent so easy to lie to these days