New Mars image from rover landing site shows the red planet in high definition

So here we are, slowing down and stopping it coming straight down on our eventual landing site here. You can see that as we were really going to slow down here, you can see the engines as we get lower, uh, throught out there and and stop us here and you could see it beginning to push all that dust around on the ground on the two sides. President has now slowed to subsonic speeds, and the heat shield has been separated. Meta filter converged. Locksley solution 3.3 m per second. Altitude 7.4 kilometers now has radar lock on the ground. Current confirmation that the immigration system has produced a valid solution and part of training to navigation TBH I don't know. We have honey of the landing engines. The next frame shows the full panorama from the knave cam, uh, stitched together. We're still working out with calibration of things. So this is, uh, you know, approximate color. But it just gives you a feel for the vista here that we were our new environment that we're gonna explore

The Perseverance rover has had a chance to settle in on Mars since landing last Thursday, so it's doing what every new resident does these days — sending back photos of its new home.In this case, it's a steady stream of amazing imagery from another planet.The rover's Mastcam-Z instrument, a pair of zoomable color cameras, returned 142 images of its landing site on Feb. 21. The teams at NASA stitched them together to create the instrument's first 360-degree panorama.This is the first high-definition look at Jezero Crater, the site of a 3.9 billion-year-old dry lake bed where the rover will search for signs of ancient life over the next two years.In the image, the crater rim and the cliff face of an ancient river delta can be seen in the distance. It's not unlike images shared previously by NASA's Curiosity rover of its exploration site in Gale Crater."We're nestled right in a sweet spot, where you can see different features similar in many ways to features found by Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity at their landing sites," said Jim Bell, principal investigator of the Mastcam-Z instrument at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, in a statement.Perseverance also sent back a panorama using its Navcams, or navigation cameras, over the weekend.Mastcam-Z is a new feature on Perseverance that builds off of lessons learned from the Curiosity rover's Mastcam instrument. Curiosity's Mastcam has two cameras with a fixed focal length, while Mastcam-Z has zooming capability.These two cameras are like high-definition eyes on Perseverance as she shares her view with a team of scientists and engineers at home.They sit on the rover's mast, reaching eye level for a person who stands just over 6 and a half feet tall. The cameras are 9.5 inches apart to allow for stereo vision.The color imagery produced by Mastcam-Z is a lot like the quality you would expect from your own digital HD camera, NASA officials said. These cameras can not only zoom but also can focus to capture video, panoramas and 3D images.This will allow scientists on the mission's team to examine objects that are both close and far away from the rover.In the panorama, details as small as 0.1 to 0.2 inches across can be seen if an object is near the rover, while those between 6.5 to 10 feet across in the distance are also visible.These capabilities will aid the overall goals of the mission in both understanding the geologic history of the crater and identifying the types of rock that the rover's other instruments should study. The views afforded by Mastcam-Z will also help scientists determine which rocks they should collect samples from that will eventually be returned to Earth by future missions.The team working on the Mastcam-Z instrument will share more details about the panorama Thursday, Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. ET on NASA's website and social media accounts.

The Perseverance rover has had a chance to settle in on Mars since landing last Thursday, so it's doing what every new resident does these days — sending back photos of its new home.

In this case, it's a steady stream of from another planet.

The rover's Mastcam-Z instrument, a pair of zoomable color cameras, returned 142 images of its landing site on Feb. 21. The teams at NASA stitched them together to create the instrument's first .

This is the first high-definition look at Jezero Crater, the site of a 3.9 billion-year-old dry lake bed where the rover will search for signs of ancient life over the next two years.

In the image, the crater rim and the cliff face of an ancient river delta can be seen in the distance. It's not unlike images shared previously by NASA's Curiosity rover of its exploration site in Gale Crater.

"We're nestled right in a sweet spot, where you can see different features similar in many ways to features found by Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity at their landing sites," said Jim Bell, principal investigator of the Mastcam-Z instrument at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, in a statement.

Perseverance also sent back a panorama using its Navcams, or navigation cameras, over the weekend.

Mastcam-Z is a new feature on Perseverance that builds off of lessons learned from the Curiosity rover's Mastcam instrument. Curiosity's Mastcam has two cameras with a fixed focal length, while Mastcam-Z has zooming capability.

These two cameras are like high-definition eyes on Perseverance as she shares her view with a team of scientists and engineers at home.

They sit on the rover's mast, reaching eye level for a person who stands just over 6 and a half feet tall. The cameras are 9.5 inches apart to allow for stereo vision.

The color imagery produced by Mastcam-Z is a lot like the quality you would expect from your own digital HD camera, NASA officials said. These cameras can not only zoom but also can focus to capture video, panoramas and 3D images.

This will allow scientists on the mission's team to examine objects that are both close and far away from the rover.

In the panorama, details as small as 0.1 to 0.2 inches across can be seen if an object is near the rover, while those between 6.5 to 10 feet across in the distance are also visible.

These capabilities will aid the overall goals of the mission in both understanding the geologic history of the crater and identifying the types of rock that the rover's other instruments should study. The views afforded by Mastcam-Z will also help scientists determine which rocks they should collect samples from that will eventually be returned to Earth by future missions.

The team working on the Mastcam-Z instrument will share more details about the panorama Thursday, Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. ET on NASA's and social media accounts.

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