Sol 0143: South Seitah Mastcam-Z Mosaic
This text is based on the NASA/JPL media release for this mosaic, online at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24745
This wide view of Mars’ Jezero Crater was taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover on July 15, 2021 (the 143rd sol, or Martian day, of its mission). The rover has driven nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) south of its landing site, “Octavia E. Butler Landing,” into a region the team has nicknamed the “Crater Floor Fractured Rough” unit. The stones that appear light-colored and flat in this image are informally referred to as the “paver rocks” and will be the first type from which Perseverance will collect a sample for planned return to Earth by subsequent missions. Small hills to the south of the rover and the sloping inner walls of the Jezero Crater rim fill the distant background of this view.
27 images from the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument were combined to make this mosaic. The natural color version simulates the approximate view that we would see with our own eyes if we were there. The enhanced color version exaggerates the subtle red, green, and blue color differences among the materials in this scene.
Lastly, the anaglyphs below combine the 27 individual images from the rover’s Mastcam-Z left-eye and right-eye cameras on the same day (54 images total). The natural color anaglyph (for red-blue glasses), simulates the approximate 3D and color view that we would see with our own eyes if we were there.
[Note: The preview images embedded in the text here are low-resolution 1/10 scale JPEGs, because the full-resolution versions of these mosaics would take a long time to load on cell phones or tablets/laptops without high-speed internet access. Full-resolution PNG versions can be downloaded with the hyperlinks below each preview.]
Natural & Enhanced:
Left eye color panorama, natural color (view high resolution PNG)
Right eye color panorama, natural color (view high resolution PNG)
Left eye color panorama, enhanced color (view high resolution PNG)
Right eye color panorama, enhanced color (view high resolution PNG)
Anaglyphs:
Left/Right eye RGB color anaglyph panorama, natural color (view high resolution PNG)
Left/Right eye RGB color anaglyph panorama, enhanced color (view high resolution PNG)
Left/Right eye BLUE channel anaglyph panorama (view high resolution PNG)
Left/Right eye RED channel anaglyph panorama (view high resolution PNG)
July 15, 2021