This view of the Martian landscape is gorgeous. This image shows two locations in Mars’s Jezero Crater where NASA’s Perseverance rover collected rock samples for possible return to Earth in the future: “Wildcat Ridge” and “Skinner Ridge”. These two outcrops are within about 70 feet (20 meters) of each other. The rover cored two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk (about 0.5 inches, or 13 millimeters, in diameter and 2.4 inches, or 60 millimeters, long) from each location.
The multiple images that make up this mosaic were acquired by Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z instrument on the 518st Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. The audio was recorded by Perseverance Rover, and we combined it with this view for a better experience.