Channel: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Category: Science & Technology

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Description: NASA’s rovers are putting their gears in drive on Mars, making discoveries along the way. NASA's Curiosity rover captured some interesting images on Mount Sharp while heading toward an area called Greenheugh Pediment. Over in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter are both gearing up for a new destination. Perseverance is wrapping up its first science campaign on the floor of Jezero Crater and, with the help of sophisticated self-driving abilities, will head toward the remnants of a fan-shaped deposit of river sediments known as a delta to collect more samples. Ingenuity is planning updates to its software to improve operational safety. You can make your own discoveries by visiting the raw image pages for the Curiosity rover mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images and Perseverance rover mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images, which feature unprocessed images coming straight down from the rovers. For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/University of Arizona