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<\/p>\nA NASA robot has taken a ‘selfie’ on the surface of Mars as the space agency continues to gather detail on the Red Planet in preparation for a first-ever manned mission<\/p>\n
NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover took a self-portrait against a dramatic backdrop of ancient Martian terrain (Image: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n
Incredible new photographs released by NASA<\/a> show a robot’s ‘selfie’ from the surface of Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n The space agency\u2019s Perseverance rover took a self-portrait against a dramatic backdrop of ancient Martian terrain at the ‘Lac de Charmes’, a region on the western edge of Mars’ Jezero Crater.<\/p>\n Assembled from 61 individual images, the image shows Perseverance training its mast on a rocky outcrop on which it had just scraped a circle shape on, with the western rim of Jezero Crater stretching into the background.<\/p>\n The selfie was captured on March 11, the 1,797th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, during the rover\u2019s deepest push west beyond the crater.<\/p>\n NASA is collecting scientific data on the Red Planet (Image: ESA\/MPS et al. \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n READ MORE: Woman thrown from bike in Thailand faces huge bill after insurance mistake<\/a>READ MORE: Tourist shot dead at Teotihuac\u00e1n pyramids in Mexico after gunman opens fire<\/a><\/p>\n Perseverance is in its fifth campaign, known as the Northern Rim Campaign, of its mission on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n The Lac de Charmes region represents some of the most challenging and scientifically rewarding terrain the rover has visited to date.<\/p>\n Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance\u2019s project scientist at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said: \u201cWe took this image when the rover was in the \u2018Wild West\u2019 beyond the Jezero Crater rim \u2014 the farthest west we have been since we landed at Jezero a little over five years ago<\/p>\n \u201cWe had just abraded and analysed the \u2018Arethusa\u2019 outcrop, and the rover was sitting in a spot that provided a great view of both the Jezero Rim and the local terrain outside of the crater.\u201d<\/p>\n NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover landed on Mars back in 2021(Image: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n A NASA crew recently completed the landmark Artemis II fly-by mission, marking the first time humanity has returned to the Moon in half a century.<\/p>\n The capsule – which completed a 695,081-mile trip around the Moon – carried astronauts deeper into space than humans have ever travelled before, before splashing down off the coast of Florida.<\/p>\n The recent Artemis II round-the-Moon mission was part of NASA’s preparation for a future landing on Mars (Image: AP)<\/p>\n Aside from a malfunctioning toilet, the capsule appeared to perform well during the nearly 10-day voyage, according to NASA.<\/p>\n The landmark mission will be followed in the next couple of years by Artemis III and Artemis IV lunar landing missions, which will live-test life support systems, spacesuits, and surface habitats required for Mars.<\/p>\n NASA’s first-ever human landing on Mars is currently planned for the mid-2030s, while China’s National Space Administration and Elon Musk’s SpaceX also announced separate missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NASA robot has taken a ‘selfie’ on the surface of Mars as the space agency continues to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,9270,92,90,28396,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-583639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-jet-propulsion-laboratory","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-selfies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Mars,](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778766434_595_1_Robot-rover-sends-striking-new-Mars-selfie.jpg\")
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