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NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover sent a selfie from Mars taken against the sweeping backdrop of a region scientists call the \u2018Lac de Charmes.\u2019<\/p>\n
Since landing on Mars five years ago, Perseverance has been analyzing minerals as it travels west across the dry terrain of the Red Planet. On Tuesday, NASA released the latest selfie taken by the rover \u2014 its sixth since landing on Mars in 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n Assembled from 61 individual images, the selfie shows Perseverance pointing its mast toward a rocky outcrop in the foreground after creating a circular abrasion patch. During the abrasion process, the rover grinds away part of a rock\u2019s surface so the science team can study material beneath it. The image was captured on March 11 during the rover\u2019s farthest push west beyond the crater since arriving on Mars. The western rim of Jezero Crater can be seen stretching into the distance behind it. <\/p>\n Perseverance took the selfie using the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and Engineering) camera mounted at the end of its robotic arm, which made 62 precision movements over approximately one hour to build the composite image.<\/p>\n NASA says the broad expanse of ancient Martian terrain visible in the selfie is known as the \u201cLac de Charmes.\u201d Scientists consider the region some of the most scientifically important terrain Perseverance has explored so far.<\/p>\n \u201cWe took this image when the rover was in the \u2018Wild West\u2019 beyond the Jezero Crater rim \u2014 the farthest west we have been since we landed at Jezero a little over five years ago,\u201d Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance\u2019s project scientist at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, says in a statement.<\/a> \u201cWe had just abraded and analyzed the \u2018Arethusa\u2019 outcrop, and the rover was sitting in a spot that provided a great view of both the Jezero Rim and the local terrain outside of the crater.\u201d<\/p>\n Alongside the selfie, Perseverance also used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture a mosaic of the \u201cArbot\u201d area in Lac de Charmes on April 5, or Sol 1882. The panorama, made from 46 images, provides one of the mission\u2019s most detailed geological views, showing a windswept landscape filled with different rock textures.<\/p>\n
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NASA\u2019s Perseverance captured this enhanced-color panorama of an area nicknamed \u2018Arbot.\u2019 | Image credit: