The historic image of the rover beside the Mars Helicopter proved to be one of the most complex rover selfies ever taken. Video, with bonus audio, sheds light on the process.
Ever wondered how Mars rovers take a selfie? Color video from NASA’s Perseverance shows how the rover captured the historic April 6, 2021, image of itself beside the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
My Favorite Martian Image: Jezero Crater's 'Delta Scarp' – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Mars' 'Delta Scarp' From More Than a Mile Away: Perseverance scientist Vivian Sun was excited to see certain geologic features in imagery of Jezero Crater’s “Delta Scarp” because they provide evidence of a watery past.
A Perseverance rover scientist’s favorite shot from the young Mars mission provides a new angle on an old and intriguing surface feature .
China plans to send its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033
GUANGZHOU, China — China plans to send its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033 as it continues to boost its space ambitions in a battle with the U.S.
Wang Xiaojun, head of the state-owned China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, outlined the country's Mars plans for the first time this month at a space conference in Russia, according to the academy.
NASA spacecraft spots China's Mars rover Zhurong heading south on Red Planet (photo) | Space
China's first-ever Mars rover was on the move earlier this month, imagery by a NASA spacecraft shows.
The rover, named Zhurong, is part of Tianwen-1 , China's first fully homegrown Red Planet mission, which arrived in orbit around Mars in February. Zhurong separated from the Tianwen-1 orbiter on May 14 and touched down on the vast plain Utopia Planitia a few hours later.
Study Looks More Closely at Mars' Underground Water Signals
The bright white region of this image shows the icy cap that covers Mars' south pole, composed of frozen water and frozen carbon dioxide. ESA's Mars Express imaged this area of Mars on Dec. 17, 2012, in infrared, green and blue light, using its High Resolution Stereo Camera.
ESA's (the European Space Agency's) Mars Express flies over the Red Planet in this illustration. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory supplied the receiver for the mission's Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) instrument.
Sol 3160-3162: It's Sandy Out There… – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Today’s workspace sports a lot of sand, which of course will be a target for our investigations. But it also has interesting looking rocks, which seem very rubbly and structured. The image above shows the area the team was looking at very closely and that has all of today’s targets.
Mars selfie, Betelgeuse mystery and the impact of journal closure
Zhurong took this selfie using a detachable camera it released onto the ground. Credit: Jin Liwang/CNSA/Xinhua/ZUMA Press
A scientifically important image was a high-resolution colour shot taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which offers scientists an extremely detailed view of the landing site.
ESA's quadruped rover SpaceBok could jump around Moon and Mars
Seeking to create a next-generation quadruped rover capable of jumping in low-gravity environments, the Swiss-based robotic labs at ETH Zurich and ZHAW Winterthur have engineered an agile exploratory vehicle named SpaceBok.
The ambitious SpaceBok team is comprised of 12 students from ETH Zurich and ZHAW Winterthur in Switzerland, whose varied fields of study encompass mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering.
Mars colonists are going to wish they had an atmosphere above them
"On Mars however, with a surface pressure one 100th that of the Earth, the impactors generally make it to the surface," says the team from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment), on board MRO, took this image of a small impact crater that was formed sometime in the last five years. Although the crater is small, the rays of ejecta thrown out by the impact are easy to spot, stretching out almost a kilometer.
Happening on Twitter
Lots of people ask: how do rovers like me and @MarsCuriosity take our own selfies? It's not as easy as a quick smar… https://t.co/9JwGCiMUBl NASAPersevere (from Jezero Crater, Mars) Fri Jun 25 16:53:00 +0000 2021
📸🤖 Our @NASAPersevere rover captured a historic selfie with our Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter on April 6, 2021. But how… https://t.co/yqeK5LLQKA NASA (from Pale Blue Dot) Fri Jun 25 22:57:00 +0000 2021
It's one of the questions we hear most often: since there's no one on Mars, who took the pictures of the rovers?? 📸… https://t.co/vzZtIbroAP NASAMars (from Fourth Planet From the Sun) Fri Jun 25 20:35:58 +0000 2021
Watch (and hear) how NASA's Perseverance #rover took its first #selfie @NASAJPL https://t.co/w3iOlNzTAU physorg_com Fri Jun 25 17:06:37 +0000 2021
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