Mars 360: NASA's Perseverance Rover Gives High-Definition Panoramic View of Landing Site

The images for panorama obtained by the rover's 22-110mm Mastcam-Z camera. The mosaic, which stretches about 30,000 pixels width, includes 143 images taken on Sol 3 (February 21, 2021).

NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees, allowing the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument to capture its first panorama after touching down on the Red Planet on Feb 18. It was the rover’s second panorama ever, as the rover’s Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, also located on the mast, captured a 360-degree view on Feb. 20.

Mastcam-Z’s design is an evolution of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover’s Mastcam instrument, which has two cameras of fixed focal length rather than zoomable cameras. The two cameras on Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z dual cameras are mounted on the rover’s mast at eye level for a person 6 feet, 6 inches (2 meters) tall. They sit 9.5 inches (24.1 centimeters) apart to provide stereo vision and can produce color images with a quality similar to that of a consumer digital HD camera.

A microphone attached to the Perseverance rover obtained sounds of Martian breeze from Jezero Crater on Feb. 20.

Alana Johnson / Grey Hautaluoma


NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Source images credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Stitching and retouching: Andrew Bodrov / 360pano.eu (http://bit.ly/perseverance-sol0003)


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