Spotting Perseverance: A Tiny Glimpse of NASA’s Rover from Mars Orbit

Open the image below (4000×2250 pixels), then zoom in to find the small, bright, bluish-white object. Congratulations: you’ve just spotted NASA’s Perseverance rover from Mars orbit! If you look carefully, you can even pick out the rover’s tracks!

Perseverance rover from Mars orbit
This false-color view is a portion of HiRISE image ESP_071077_1985, taken by the HiRISE instrument onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft on September 24, 2021, from an altitude of 279 km (173 miles). North is to the upper right. At that time, the Perseverance rover was about 700 meters (2,300 feet) from its original landing site. Image source: “Persevering on Mars” on The University of Arizona website

Hint: Perseverance is here:

Perseverance rover from Mars orbit
Perseverance is located within the red square in the image.
M. Özgür Nevres

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