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                              2022 February 25

                            Perseverance Sol 354
         Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Processing; Kenneth Kremer

   Explanation: This Navcam mosaic from Perseverance looks out over the
   car-sized rover's deck, across the floor of Jezero crater on Mars.
   Frames used to construct the mosaic view were captured on mission sol
   354. That corresponds to Earth calendar date February 17, 2022, nearly
   one Earth year after the rover's landing. With a mass of over 1,000
   kilograms, six-wheeled Perseverance is the heaviest rover to touch down
   on Mars. During its first year of exploration the rover has collected
   six (so far) rock core samples for later return to planet Earth, served
   as the base station for Ingenuity, the first helicopter on Mars, and
   tested MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment),
   converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich
   atmosphere into oxygen.

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