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Perseverance Blasts Past the Top of Jezero Crater Rim
- Perseverance rover blasted past the top of Jezero Crater rim and reached Gross Morne quad, named after a Canadian National Park in Newfoundland.
- From here, the Mars rover will name the targets using locations and features in the national park.
- Perseverance rover captured panoramic images of the great unknown expanse of Mars’ Nili Planum and geological features as far as 35 miles away using its powerful cameras.
- Jezero Crater is potentially some of the most ancient surface on the Red Planet, making this an epic moment in Mars exploration.
- Perseverance rover is already at the upper part of Witch Hazel Hill located on the lower western edge of the Jezero Crater rim.
- The science team is excited about the opportunity to analyze the geology directly beneath the rover's wheels on Witch Hazel Hill, which provides more exposed rock than some of the previous points on the crater rim.
- While Curiosity has been climbing 'Mount Sharp' for 10 years, no extraterrestrial rover has driven out of such a huge crater as Jezero to see a whole new 'continent' ahead.
- Roger C. Wiens, Principal Investigator of SuperCam instrument at Purdue University, expressed his excitement for exploring the potentially ancient surface of Jezero Crater.
- Perseverance rover traveled through several peaks of the Jezero Crater rim like Dox Castle, Pico Turquino, and Faraway Rock before reaching the top of Lookout Hill.
- With the recent progress on the Jezero Crater, Perseverance rover is on its way to exploring a whole new area on Mars which might reveal many new mysteries of the Red Planet.
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