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Sol 1282: Mid-Climb View of Jezero Crater Mastcam-Z Mosaic

This text is based on the NASA/JPL media release for this mosaic, online at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA26378

This high-resolution mosaic showing Mars’ Jezero Crater was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA’s Perseverance as the rover climbed the crater’s western wall. It was taken when the rover was near a location the Perseverance science team calls “Faraway Rock,” about halfway up the climb. Many of the landmarks visited by the rover during its 3½-year exploration of Jezero can be seen, and the vehicle’s tracks are also visible in the merged version of this mosaic available at the corresponding Photojournal post linked at the header of this page. The Photojournal page also includes an annotated version of this mosaic showing the distance (in kilometers) between the rover and nearly 50 labeled points of interest. The locations include, from left to right:

  • Tuff Cliff, a rocky outcrop located in the same river channel (and about 480 meters east of) where Perseverance discovered the “Cheyava Falls rock“
  • Ingenuity’s final airfield, which is called “Valinor Hills“
  • “Beehive Geyser,” located on the eastern side of the “Margin Unit” and adjacent to the Neretva Vallis channel
  • “Bunsen Peak” is where Perseverance extracted its 21st rock core
  • “Jurabi Point” is a “triple junction” where the boulder-rich unit, upper fan sedimentary rock, and Margin Unit intersect
  • Both Perseverance and Ingenuity operated at “Gnaraloo Bay” is a “triple junction” where the boulder-rich unit, upper fan sedimentary rock, and Margin Unit intersect in December 2023
  • “Mandu Wall” is where the rover began its fourth science campaign on Sept. 7, 2023
  • “Hans Amundsen M.W.,” which stands for “memorial workspace,” is where Perseverance collected the “Pelican Point” cored rock sample on Sept. 25, 2023
  • “Three Forks” is the name of the location where Perseverance deposited 10 of its filled tubes in December 2022 and January 2023
  • Belva Crater was imaged by Perseverance on April 22, 2023
  • “Pinestand” is an isolated hill that mission scientists think was formed billions of years ago by a deep, fast-moving river. Composed of sedimentary layers stacked on top of one another, this site was imaged but not visited by the rover.
  • The landing site is where the rover touched down on Feb. 18, 2021
  • “Cape Nukshak” is a river channel the mission considered as a route to get to the river delta. The team decided to use another river-channel route called “Hawksbill Gap.”
  • “Enchanted Lake” is where the mission first got its first up-close look at sedimentary rocks
  • The flat-topped hill nicknamed “Kodiak” was imaged by the rover on April 18, 2021

[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:


Right eye color panorama, natural color (view high resolution PNG)

Right eye color panorama, enhanced color (view high resolution PNG)

This mosaic was taken with only the right Mastcam-Z camera, meaning no anaglyph products were made for this mosaic.

September 27, 2024

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