The first high-resolution panorama that features Mars RoverThe landing site provides a very detailed view of it Jezero Crater, In which the lattice rays of the pit in the distance and the low rocks marking the edge of the ancient river delta.
Panorama is made up of 142 images captured by the head ZM-Z camera my instrument over the weekend, three days after the rover’s dramatic landing.
Click on the image below to zoom in and explore the landscape.
Zombie, the dual camera system is mounted on a remote sensing mast and is capable of full 360 degree rotation to provide panoramic color and 3D images. He is able to find something as small as a house fly in the length of a football field.
“I’m taking it all in,” Rover’s Twitter account reported Wednesday. “This is the first 360-degree view of my house using the mastic am-z.”
दरेता Landed Last Thursday a pit that once held water the size of a lake pond. Billions of years ago, water entered the pit through a channel cut through the edge of the pit, depositing silt in the formation of a vast universe, as it fills the pit to a depth of hundreds of feet.
Water disappeared about three billion years ago, but silt can hold preserved fossils of ancient microbial life. The line was built to collect promising rock and clay samples that will be deposited on the surface for retrieval by another rover later this decade. Samples will then be launched into orbit for capture by a European spacecraft Bring them back to earth For detailed analysis.
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The Mast Stock Am M-Z Panorama looks out over the floor of the pit, showing the Craigie rim of Jezero in the distance and the rocks marking the edge of the delta formation. Near scoring marks hitting the surface of the rocket exhaust plums The stubbornness was being touched down By its “Sky Crane” jet pack.
“We’ve just turned into a sweet spot, where you (former rovers) can see the many different features similar to the ones seen on their landing sites by Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity,” said Jim Bell, chief investigator at Arizona State University. . ASU operates Mastam-Z in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego.
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One goal of the initial imaging campaign is to identify relatively flat, boulder-free areas where small helicopters, still attached to the rover’s belly, can be left for testing to determine if a flight in a thin Martian atmosphere is possible.
Initial test flights are expected in about two months.
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