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NASA�s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23. A rock nicknamed �Cheyava Falls,� which has features that may bear on the question of whether the Red Planet was long ago home to microscopic life, is to the left of the rover near the center of the image.
Four side-by-side images, overhead views of different landscapes on Mars: The first image shows a flat area with a few small craters. The terrain around the edge of the frame is a dull copper color, while the rest is very bright, in shades of very light green and turquoise. The second image appears to be a crater or valley, but looks like the right half of a sunflower bloom, although colored in shades of tan and brown, except for the petals at the top of the frame, which are highlighted in very light shades of mint green. The third image shows a much more uneven and rocky surface, with rust-colored craters and outcroppings; on each of those the south-facing edges are dabbed with higlights of whitish light blue. The fourth image is of mostly flat ground, colored a dull copper, resembling a face with rocky outcroppings creating two eyes up top, a nose in the middle, and a crooked mouth at the bottom of the frame. The eyes shine brightly and the nose is highlighted slightly in bright blue, coloring the south-facing slopes.
This full disc image of Mars shows the expanse of Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, and several volcanoes.

The Mars Report

Your source for everything on or about the Red Planet, continuing NASA's six decades of unparalleled exploration and discoveries. We bring you mission updates, spacecraft news, science findings, unique Mars imagery — and a vision for the humanity-defining possibilities that NASA’s presence on Mars will unlock. 

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First mars close-ups

Mariner 4 (1965)

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‘Sapphire Canyon’sample

Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature

Last summer NASA's Perseverance Mars rover investigated its “most puzzling, complex, and potentially important rock yet.” Now, after a rigorous, yearlong peer-review of the Mars 2020 team’s data and analysis, the journal Nature has published the validated results: Perseverance’s “Sapphire Canyon” sample indeed contains potential biosignatures.

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NASA�s Perseverance rover discovered �leopard spots� on a reddish rock nicknamed �Cheyava Falls� in Mars� Jezero Crater in July 2024. Scientists think the spots may indicate that, billions of years ago, the chemical reactions in this rock could have supported microbial life; other explanations are being considered.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rock nicknamed "Cheyava Falls" on July 18, 2024. Named after a Grand Canyon waterfall, Cheyava Falls was found in an ancient riverbed within the "Bright Angel" region of Mars' Jezero Crater. Perseverance drilled a core from Cheyava Falls, the rover's 22nd rock sample, nicknamed "Sapphire Canyon," on July 21, 2024.
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