One can never have enough Selfies from Mars! This one from Perseverance Rover was acquired on December 12, 2025 (Sol 1711) using the SHERLOC WATSON camera. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Checking out some interesting rocks with Perseverance's MastCam-Z camera during the morning of mission Sol 1703 (December 4, 2025). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
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Perseverance rover looks back after long drive to the southwest during November 17, 2025 (Sol 1686).
The traverse distance was 285m (936ft), with a climb of 8.7m (28ft), drive duration was 220 minutes. Attached is a roughly processed tiled NavCam and the drive data. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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Perseverance Rover Encounters a Possible Meteorite.
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/a-stranger-in-our-midst/
Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
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Mars Guy: Episode 239.
Mars is notorious for having copious amounts of dust, so when the dust cover of the highest resolution camera on Perseverance could not be closed, it seemed doomed. Here’s what’s happened after 21 months uncovered.
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Meanwhile on Mars: An uphill drive lasting ~67 minutes for Perseverance rover during mission Sol 1661 (October 22, 2025). The distance was ~44 meters due north, climbing ~9.2 meters, with an end-of-drive tilt of 18.7°.
Attached is a processed rear HazCam image looking downslope at its wheel tracks, the drive data, and screen captures of the updated mission map (with scale bars).
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA
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Rock Coatings as Evidence for Late Surface Alteration on the Floor of Jezero Crater, Mars
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009242
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Meanwhile on Mars:
Early Morning Imaging.
16-tile Left NavCam.
Sol 1622, 05:55 LMST.
Friday September 12, 2025.
Credits NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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Wheel tracks and what appears to be distant clouds seen in this composite image taken by Perseverance rover. The base images were acquired after a drive to the southeast of close to 202 meters during sol 1595 (August 15.2025). The image was assembled / cropped from 6 post-drive NavCam tiles. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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Perseverance Rover at 'Falbreen':
The rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of an area nicknamed "Falbreen" on May 26, 2025 (Sol 1516) Ninety-six separate images were stitched together to make the panorama.
Check out the 3 full size versions of this panorama along with all the details on https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA26644
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
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Spheres in the Sand: Perseverance rover science team blog released on July 29, 2025.
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/spheres-in-the-sand/
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It may have moved, but Perseverance rover managed to abrade some of the targets weathered surface for further investigation. Here's two images from Sol 1567 (July 17, 2025), a processed NavCam tile (for context), and a close-up of the patch from the SHERLOC WATSON camera (mounted on the turret next to the drill). For scale the patch has a diameter of about 2 inches (5 cm) - Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Pushing a rock around on Mars! Time lapse from Perseverance Rover's HazCam (timestamps included). Watch closely, to see the movement of the shadows from the robotic arm, the rock, the sand grains, the drill mechanism, and the dust all moving around. Animation of 15 images taken about 1 minute apart, the duration was about 13 minutes on sol 1565 (July 15, 2025).
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Mars Cleans Perseverance and Erases Its Work:
Mars Guy - Episode 222.
Perseverance is a robotic field geologist observing the aftermath of events that occurred millions to billions of years ago. But it's also a witness to events happening today that have shaped the surface of Mars across geologic time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuXynIUdH-I
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Meanwhile on Mars!
A short drive (bump) sees Perseverance rover move to a new robotic arm workspace. The attached processed image uses 6 overlapping NavCam tiles. The image tiles were acquired after the drive to RMC site 77.0, during mission sol 1551 (July 1, 2025). The image was assembled in MS-ICE. Also attached is the drive data, including a few basic statistics.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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Meanwhile on Mars!
Another drive in the crater rim campaign / walkabout, sees Perseverance rover still searching for a site to collect a core sample. Here's a composite image using 6 overlapping processed NavCam tiles, that were acquired after the drive to RMC site 76.594 during Sol 1549 (June 29, 2025). The image was assembled in MS-ICE. Also find the drive data and a few statistics. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Perseverance rover's drill attempting to create an abrasion patch during June 27, 2025 (Sol 1547). This animation is assembled from 15 raw images, captured by one of its front hazard avoidance cameras, over a period of about 10 minutes. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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Meanwhile on Mars:
Perseverance rover checking out its coring bit and the fractured bedrock that broke up during drilling (image center). Attached is a 9-tile processed NavCam [3854x2894px] of the workspace, and a MastCam-Z image of the drill and its coring bit. No sign of a core in the drill bit in these images from sol 1535 (June 14, 2025)
Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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Meanwhile on Mars!
Perseverance rover images its latest abrasion patch. For scale the patch has a diameter of about 5 cm (2") This image from its SHERLOC WATSON camera was acquired on June 5, 2025 (Sol 1526) at the local mean solar time of 12:26. Credits: NASA.JPL-Caltech.
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