NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is About To Finish A Marathon

NASA's Perseverance rover captured this selfie as it looks down at a rocky outcrop named Arathusa. The image is composed of 61 images taken on March 11th. Arathusa may predate the formation of Jezero Crater, the larger landscape feature that Perseverance is exploring. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Perseverance has travelled almost 26 miles, or 42 km. That’s just shy of a marathon, which is 26.2 miles or 42.195 kilometers. Along the way, it’s abraded and studied 62 rocks and collected 27 rock cores. And it’s not done yet.

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