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    Perseverance’s Robotic Arm starts Conducting Science

    May 13, 2021, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Perseverance’s robotic arm starts conducting science
    NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill about 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) away from the rover, on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The entire scene is inside of Mars’ Jezero Crater; the crater’s rim can be seen on the horizon line beyond the hill. Credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    NASA’s newest Mars rover is beginning to study the floor of an ancient crater that once held a lake. Perseverance has been busy serving as a communications base station for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and documenting the rotorcraft’s historic flights. But the rover has also been busy focusing its science instruments on rocks that lay on the floor of Jezero Crater.

    What insights they turn up will help sc...

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