images

Perseverance selfie

by

Nasa/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Novapix

Reference

e-son27-64035

Date

2025-10-02

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie over a rock nicknamed "Rochette," on September 10, 2021, the 198th Martian day, or sol of the mission. Two holes can be seen where the rover used its robotic arm to drill rock core samples. Composite of 57 individual images that are sent back down to Earth and stitched into the resulting selfies.