
This is the first full-color and high-resolution image. The Mars Perseverance Model is on loan from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of their Roving with Perseverance tour. From the time it arrived on Mars, the Perseverance rover took more than 215,000 pictures. Keep an eye out for a collection of out-of-this world programs featuring staff from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as well as local experts and tinkerers exploring Mars and more.

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images. Be sure to check out the Bechtel Gallery 3 Wattis Studio to dig in deeper to Perseverance, previous rover missions, and visual experiences inspired by space. Orbit Number: 94308 Latitude: 17.8126 Longitude: 128.079 Instrument: VIS Captured: 15:06. Surrounding the rover is an immersive audio experience, crafted from the rich audio that Perseverance has captured from its two onboard microphones. It’s icy cold and covered in reddish dust and dirt. Since landing in February 2021, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has sent back hundreds of thousands of images of the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars is a fascinating planet. It’s the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the M. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun.

The artwork is etched onto a metal plate attached to the deck of the Mars Perseverance rover. Perseverance Rover Sees Solar Eclipse on Mars April 20, 2022. Nearly the size of a car, with its camera “head” rising high, Perseverance’s six-wheeled look-alike towers over most visitors, offering a close up look at this ingenious explorer that is transforming humans’ understanding of Mars. This image depicts all of the rovers which have driven on Mars, as well as the Mars helicopter. While NASA’s Perseverance rover is hard at work exploring Mars hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, a full-scale, lifelike model finds a temporary home at the Exploratorium! Since landing on Mars on February 18, 2021, Perseverance has been hunting for signs of ancient microbial life in order to collect and store samples of Martian rock and sediment to be retrieved by planned future missions for closer study on Earth.
