Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity - Enhanced
by Weston Westmoreland
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Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity - Enhanced
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Weston Westmoreland
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Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity. Mars, April 6, 2021. Enhanced.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter.
Perseverance's selfie with Ingenuity is made up of 62 individual images stitched together once they are sent back to Earth.
A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
Original image and text by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, further image enhancements and post processing by Weston Westmoreland.
More enhanced NASA/Hubble images one copy-paste away at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/astronomy
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April 23rd, 2021
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