The analysis of which is labs on Earth would give us vital information about the history of Mars, the impact bombardment of the inner Solar System, and the risks astronauts will face on the Red Planet and how we can mitigate them.
Rocks on Mars, sticking out of sand. The scale of the image is about a few tens of centimetres across.
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This scene is a composite of our Perseverance rover Right Mastcam-Z photos taken on Wednesday, 13 May 2026 at a little before 1:00 pm local Jezero Crater time.
I adjusted the white and colour balances to better match the scene to human vision.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Paul Byrne
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Raw data
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
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