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Perseverance touched down in the Jezero Crater, a dried-up river delta just to the north of the Martian equator - and a potential site for signs of ancient fossilised microbial life.

» Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bot: NASAs Perseverance Mars rover is snapping remarkable new selfies Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bot: NASAs Perseverance Mars rover is snapping remarkable new selfies Aria BendixApr 9, 2021, 03:19 IST Perseverance photographed its own cameras.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Seán Doran NASAs Perseverance rover is using its robotic arm to take selfies on Mars. The rover recently captured an image of its body in an image alongside the Ingenuity helicopter. An...

NASAs Perseverance rover has sent back two selfies of its camera-laden face and head from the Jezero Crater on the surface of Mars.   The two snaps show Perseverances remote sensing mast, which hosts many of the rovers cameras and scientific instruments.  They were taken with the SHERLOC WATSON camera, located on the turret at the end of the rovers robotic arm.  Perseverance touched down on the Red Planet on February 18 after a nearly seven-month journey through space.  It is tasked wi...