Perseverance’s View of Turquoise Bay

NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture a 360-degree panorama of Turquoise Bay, a geological region of interest in the Margin Unit.

The natural-color panorama combines 818 images taken between October 5 and October 16, 2023, during the 933rd through 944th Martian days, or sols, of the mission period.

Enhanced-Color Version

Figure A is an enhanced-color version of the panorama. Its color bands were processed to improve visual contrast and highlight differences in color across the Martian landscape.

Teams Behind the Mastcam-Z Camera

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, manages the construction and operations of the Perseverance spacecraft.

Arizona State University leads operations of the Mastcam-Z instrument. The university works with San Diego’s Marine Space Science Systems to design, manufacture, test and operate the camera, and with the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute to design, manufacture and test the calibration target.

For more information about Perseverance, visit
science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/.