Highlands Splendor
July 2026 Mastcam-Z “Image of the Month” submitted by Laura Mehall and the Mastcam-Z Payload Downlink Leads
Who hasn’t climbed up the nearest peak to see the view from the top? We are often rendered speechless by the views. Such was the reaction upon seeing this view for the first time. This stunning scene was captured from the western outer slope of Jezero crater’s rim looking westward over the Martian highlands. The field of sand dunes, named Dawespynten, is ~1 km away. This mosaic was created from 12 individual images and is displayed in enhanced color to improve visual contrast. At the time these images were acquired, the rover was on a slight tilt resulting in the right side of the mosaic to be slightly higher than the left side.
Images acquired on sol 1640 (Sept. 30, 2025), in Mastcam-Z sequence zcam09723
The featured image shown here and JPEG from the button below are only 1/10th scale compressed versions of the original, high-resolution panorama, because of size limitations on what can be posted on our site. Please download and view the glorious FULL RESOLUTION version (14,400 x 6606 pixels; 83 MBytes) from here:
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Photo credit: [NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS]
July 7, 2026