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Potential Driving Routes for NASA's Perseverance Rover
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Potential Driving Routes for NASA's Perseverance Rover

Potential Driving Routes for NASA's Perseverance Rover

NASA's image library records Potential Driving Routes for NASA's Perseverance Rover.

WHY IT’S INTERESTING

This annotated image highlights potential routes that NASA's Perseverance team is considering in September 2022 for the rover to drive from the front of an ancient river delta to the rim of Jezero Crater. The team will continue to investigate the Martian terrain and consider the science potential of these options before choosing the rover's route.

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A CLOSER LOOK

This annotated image highlights potential routes that NASA's Perseverance team is considering in September 2022 for the rover to drive from the front of an ancient river delta to the rim of Jezero Crater. The team will continue to investigate the Martian terrain and consider the science potential of these options before choosing the rover's route. The Perseverance team and the U.S. Geological Survey collaborated on the base map seen here, combining multiple images from the High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera with color from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), both instruments aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The HiRISE images used span a period from 2007 to 2017. Perseverance landed on the floor of Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

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NASA Image and Video LibraryPotential Driving Routes for NASA's Perseverance Rover

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