Captured on the 148th Martian day of the mission.🧐
A set of new images provides a window into the alien, inhospitable Jezero Crater lakebed on Mars.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured three images of dust devils — small whirlwinds — on the location, where it landed in 2021 to start its search for signs of ancient life. The rover captured the images on July 20, 2021, the 148th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, using its They have since been enhanced to maximize detail via color distortion, and, as they were taken roughly 15 seconds apart, they were presented in GIF form.
The GIF, therefore, provides a fascinating glimpse of the red planet's surface, where NASA and SpaceX aim to take humans at some point next decade.The Mars Perseverance mission is searching for signs of ancient microbial life on the red planet, and it has recently been aided by the Ingenuity helicopter, which has become aThe images of the 'dust devils' on Mars compiled as a GIF.
It is also paving the way for NASA's plans to send humans to the red planet. Before they do that, however, they will first send humans back to the surface of the Moon with their upcoming Artemis III mission, which will launch aboard a SpaceX Starship rocket.
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