Perseverance's Mastcam-Z First High-Resolution Panorama

[PZ]

Perseverance's Mastcam-Z First High-Resolution Panorama

March 02, 2021

Stitched together from 79 individual images, this Mastcam-Z right-eye 110-mm zoom mosaic is from the camera's first high-resolution panorama imaging sequence. These images were taken on the afternoon of Sol 4 (Feb. 22, 2021) of the mission; a sol is a Martian day.

The camera was commanded to take these images by scanning the mast, or "head," a full 360-degrees around the horizon visible from the landing site. The top of some of the distant crater rim is cut off in some images to ensure the images would cover the front ridge of the Jezero Crater's ancient delta, which is only about 1.25 miles (2 kilometers) away from the rover in the center of this panorama. At that distance and focal length, Mastcam-Z can resolve features as small as about 50 centimeters (1.6 feet) across along the front of the delta.

The mosaic is not white balanced but is instead displayed in a preliminary calibrated version of a natural color composite, approximately simulating the colors of the scene that we would see if we were there viewing it ourselves.

This is an amazing panorama of what is being seen on the surface of Mars. You can zoom in/out, and scan side to side. It looks best when seen full screen.

https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25674/perseverances-mastcam-z-first-high-resolution-panorama/

[Dweller_Benthos]

Pretty cool, amazing we can just look at the surface of another planet like that.

[PZ]

Absolutely - to see such high resolution imagery coming from another planet is amazing. Interestingly, the landscape is not that dissimilar from the deserts I visited when I lived in California. 

[Art Blade]

that's where they trained the rovers.

[PZ]

  likely so !