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Perseverance checks in from Mars with a selfie, the mounting pollution from satellite releases, and more science stories
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NASA's Perseverance rover took its sixth ever selfie from the red planet during a recent excursion west of Mars' Jezero Crater.
Key facts
- NASA shared a panorama of that spot captured on April 5 by the rover's Mastcam-Z, stitching together 46 images to create a wide view of the rocky expanse
- An animated version of the selfie, composed of 61 images taken by a camera on the rover's robotic arm on March 11, even allows them to see Perseverance swiveling its camera head to take a look
- A study published this week in the journal Earth's Future found that pollution from these megaconstellation launches will leave roughly 870 metric tons of soot in the atmosphere annually by 2029
- NASA's Perseverance rover took its sixth ever selfie from the red planet during a recent excursion west of Mars' Jezero Crater
Summary
For the past five years, NASA's Perseverance rover has been studying a location on Mars called the Jezero Crater, which is thought to be a promising site for finding signs of ancient microbial life. An animated version of the selfie, composed of 61 images taken by a camera on the rover's robotic arm on March 11, even allows them to see Perseverance swiveling its camera head to take a look around. " NASA shared a panorama of that spot captured on April 5 by the rover's Mastcam-Z, stitching together 46 images to create a wide view of the rocky expanse. The image shows "likely the oldest rocks they are going to investigate during this mission," Ken Farley, Perseverance's deputy project scientist at Caltech, said.