Large boulders the size of small boulders
On April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day of the mission, our Perseverance Mars rover took in the rocky view in front of Santa Cruz hill in Jezero Crater. This picture is an enhanced-color mosaic of multiple images. It was created using the left- and right-eye views of Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z camera system.
The rover will pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet and characterize Mars’s geology and past climate. Perseverance will also be the first to collect and cache samples of Martian rocks, like the ones you see here. These boulders are examples of the kind of rocks the team has called “Ch’al” (pronounced “chesh”), the Navajo word for “frog,” and are about 20 inches (50 centimeters) across on average.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
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