NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured a peculiar rock with a striped pattern using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. The latter is essentially two cameras located high on the rover’s mast, which captured this image on Sept. 13, 2024 (Sol 1268) at the local mean solar time of 12:40:29.
One of Perseverance’s key objectives is astrobiology, and it includes caching samples that may contain signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will continue to characterize the planet’s geology as well as past climate, to help pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet and as the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.
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Perseverance has completed four science campaigns, collected 22 rock cores, and traveled over 18 unpaved miles. As we start the Crater Rim Campaign, our rover is in excellent condition, and the team is raring to see what’s on the roof of this place,” said Art Thompson, Perseverance project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
