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NASA Rover Explores Jezero Crater
NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured new images and maps of the Broom Point member, a geological feature in Jezero Crater on Mars. These findings could provide insights into the planet's ancient history.
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Description This orbital map shows the path NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took to get to a location the science team has dubbed the “Broom Point member,” a sequence of layered bedrock likely more than 3.9 billion years old. As planned, the rover landed inside Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. It inve
2026-07-15 17:27 UTC
NASA
Description This view looking back up at the outside lip of the 490-foot-tall (150-meter-tall) rim of Jezero Crater was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance on May 15, 2025, the 1,505th day, or sol, of the rover’s mission to Mars. The bright-colored rocks exposed across the
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