Perseverance rover snaps gorgeous HD panorama of Mars landing site [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

By Mike Wall - Space.com Senior Writer 20 hours ago

It's the rover's 1st HD panorama and made of 142 images!

NASA's Perseverance rover has given us our best view yet of its Martian landing site.

The car-sized Perseverance captured a gorgeous 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Jezero Crater, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago.

The photo, which NASA released today (Feb. 24), is composed of 142 individual images taken by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z camera system on Saturday (Feb. 21), three days after the rover touched down.

Mission team members had already stitched together a Jezero panorama using images taken on Friday (Feb. 20) by Perseverance's navigation cameras. But the high-definition Mastcam-Z has sharper eyes, so the newly unveiled photo is more striking and detailed.

More:
https://www.livescience.com/perseverance-rover-1st-mars-hd-panorama.html

Wonderful panorama at link. Remember to put the image on "full screen."