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ALT A view of rover tracks in the sandy Martian surface is shown in a photo taken by the Perseverance rover. The tracks go off into the hazy horizon and the image is tinted a beige color. A small piece of the rover is shown off to the lower right.
ALT The shadow of the Perseverance rover is cast on the Martian surface, clearly showing the outline of its mast and head-like camera system. The ground appears dusty and speckled with small rocks and textured patches, typical of the Jezero Crater terrain on Mars.
ALT Engineers in cleanroom suits work on installing NASA's MOXIE instrument onto the Perseverance rover. The gold-colored, boxy device is suspended above the rover by a crane, with one technician guiding its placement. A black label on the image identifies the instrument with the text: "MOXIE – My oxygen-extracting experiment!" The scene takes place in a cleanroom facility, with additional personnel visible behind glass windows in the background.
ALT The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is shown in a very rocky and sandy area of Mars. The silver and gray rotorcraft is stationary, with four rotor blades stacked on top of its boxy body as it stands on the reddish-hued surface.
ALT A side-by-side comparison of NASA’s Mars rovers: Curiosity (left) and Perseverance (right) are shown. Both six-wheeled rovers have a similar design, with robotic arms, cameras mounted on masts, and instrument-laden decks. Curiosity appears slightly more weathered and has simpler wheel treads, while Perseverance features more advanced instruments, sleeker design details, and redesigned wheels with thicker, zigzag treads for better durability on Martian terrain.
ALT A color-enhanced photo shows the dusty back end of the Perseverance rover. Behind it are wheel tracks left in the dusty Martian landscape and far off in the distance along the horizon is a dust devil riding along the hills.
ALT A side-by-side comparison of NASA’s Mars rovers: Curiosity (left) and Perseverance (right) are shown. Both six-wheeled rovers have a similar design, with robotic arms, cameras mounted on masts, and instrument-laden decks. Curiosity appears slightly more weathered and has simpler wheel treads, while Perseverance features more advanced instruments, sleeker design details, and redesigned wheels with thicker, zigzag treads for better durability on Martian terrain.
ALT A close-up view shows an engineering model of SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals), one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The instrument has gold plating on the front and the rest of it is surrounded by white metal.
ALT Cropped section of a Mars landscape image showing a faint dust devil in the distance. A zoomed-in inset highlights the swirling column of dust on the horizon, labeled “Dust Devil.” The terrain is rocky and slopes downward, with a hazy, gradient sky in the background.
ALT A panoramic view of a rocky desert landscape under a perfectly clear sky around mid-day. Low hills lie along the horizon. In the foreground, the back end of the Perseverance rover fills the lower right side of the frame. A gray, cylindrical antenna sits atop the left side of the rover. At the center of the rover is a white, metallic cylinder with flat cooling fins radiating from the center. On the right side is a flat, hexagonal antenna pointed at the sky.