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Ingenuity Spots Rocks During Ninth Flight
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew over these sand dunes and rocks during its ninth flight, on July 5, 2021. While the agency’s Perseverance Mars can’t risk getting stuck in this sand, scientists are still able to learn about this region by studying it from Ingenuity’s images.
July 12, 2021
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Ingenuity Spots Dune Fields During Ninth Flight
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew over this dune field in a region of Jezero Crater nicknamed “Séítah” during its ninth flight, on July 5, 2021. A portion of the helicopter’s landing gear can be seen at top left.
July 12, 2021
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Perseverance Looks Out Over 'Séítah'
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this image overlooking the “Séítah” region using its navigation camera.
July 7, 2021
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Perseverances First Autonav Drive
Perseverance relies on left and right navigation cameras. The view seen here combines the perspective of two cameras rover during the rover’s first drive using AutoNav, it’s auto-navigation function.
July 1, 2021
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3D Glasses Used for Rover Driving
Vandi Verma, an engineer who now works with NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, is seen here working as a driver for the Curiosity rover. The special 3D glasses she’s wearing are still used by rover drivers to easily detect changes in terrain that the rover may need to avoid.
July 1, 2021
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Ingenuity Helicopter in 3D
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here in 3D using images taken June 6, 2021, by the left and right Mastcam-Z cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.
June 25, 2021
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Computer Simulation of Rover Selfie
This computer simulation shows NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover taking its first selfie, on April 6, 2021. The point of view of the rover’s WATSON camera is included to show how each of the 62 images were taken before being sent to Earth and stitched together into the selfie.
June 25, 2021
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Two Views of Delta Scarp
This composite image of Jezero Crater’s “Delta Scarp” was generated using data from the Perseverance rover’s Remote Microscopic Imager and Mastcam-Z camera.
June 22, 2021
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Mars' 'Delta Scarp' From More Than a Mile Away
Perseverance scientist Olivia Sun was excited to see certain geologic features in imagery of Jezero Crater’s “Delta Scarp” because they provide evidence of a watery past.
June 22, 2021
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Perseverance to Delta Scarp
This annotated image of Mars’ Jezero Crater depicts the location of NASA’s Perseverance rover (yellow dot) and the field of view of its Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) camera when it took a series of images of the “Delta Scarp” on March 17, 2021.
June 22, 2021
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Abigail Allwood Doing Fieldwork in Greenland
JPL’s Abigail Allwood (second from left), principal investigator of the PIXL instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, conducts fieldwork with other scientists in Greenland.
June 14, 2021
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Abigail Allwood in Greenland
JPL’s Abigail Allwood, principal investigator of the PIXL instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, examines rocks in Greenland.
June 14, 2021
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Perseverance's First Road Trip
This annotated image of Jezero Crater depicts the routes for Perseverance’s first science campaign (yellow hash marks) as well as its second (light-yellow hash marks).
June 9, 2021
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Séítah From the Air
This image looking west toward the Séítah geologic unit on Mars was taken from the height of 33 feet (10 meters) by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter during its sixth flight, on May 22, 2021.
June 9, 2021
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Mastcam-Z's 360-degree View of "Van Zyl Overlook"
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z imaging system to capture this 360-degree panorama of "Van Zyl Overlook," where the rover was parked as the Ingenuity helicopter performed its first flights. The 2.4 billion-pixel panorama is made up of 992 individual images stitched together.
June 9, 2021
