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                              2022 February 25
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                            Perseverance Sol 354
    Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]JPL-Caltech, Processing; [5]Kenneth Kremer

   Explanation: This Navcam mosaic from [6]Perseverance looks out over the
   car-sized rover's deck, across the floor of Jezero crater on Mars.
   Frames used to construct the mosaic view were captured on mission sol
   354. That corresponds to Earth calendar date February 17, 2022, nearly
   [7]one Earth year after the rover's landing. With a mass of over 1,000
   kilograms, six-wheeled Perseverance is the heaviest rover to [8]touch
   down on Mars. During its first year of exploration the rover has
   collected six (so far) [9]rock core samples for later return to planet
   Earth, served as the base station [10]for Ingenuity, the first
   helicopter on Mars, and [11]tested MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource
   Utilization Experiment), converting some of the Red Planet’s thin,
   carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen.

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    Authors & editors: [23]Robert Nemiroff ([24]MTU) & [25]Jerry Bonnell
                                 ([26]UMCP)
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                           & [32]Michigan Tech. U.

References

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   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2202/PerseveranceSol354Nav1_1br2_KenKremer.jpg
   3. https://www.nasa.gov/
   4. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
   5. https://spaceupclose.com/
   6. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
   7. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-celebrates-first-year-on-mars-by-learning-to-run
   8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210220.html
   9. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-successfully-cores-its-first-rock
  10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210701.html
  11. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-perseverance-mars-rover-extracts-first-oxygen-from-red-planet
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  16. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  21. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=220225
  22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220226.html
  23. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
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  29. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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