Perseverance takes its sixth Mars selfie from far west of Jezero Crater
Perseverance took a selfie on March 11, the 1,797th Martian day of its mission, at a spot the science team calls Lac de Charmes. "We took this image when the rover was in the 'Wild West' beyond the Jezero Crater rim, the farthest west we have been since we landed at Jezero a little over five years ago," said Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The rover had just abraded the "Arathusa" outcrop. The team determined it is made of igneous minerals that likely predate the formation of Jezero Crater.
Lac de Charmes is some of the most scientifically compelling terrain the rover has visited, and the minerals in the Arathusa outcrop likely predate Jezero Crater.
Source: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Snaps Selfie in Mars’ Western Frontier - NASA (nasa.gov).
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