Red Planet in Colour
Percy sends back first colour images
By Kayt Turner
23rd Feb 2021, 12:33pm
Updated 23rd Feb 2021, 12:38pm
Perseverance, nicknamed Percy, is an SUV-sized Mars rover designed to explore Jezero Crater on Mars. It was launched on 30 July 2020 as part of NASA' s Mars 2020 mission. The rover's goals include looking for past Martian environments capable of supporting life, seeking out possible microbial life in those environments, collecting rock and soil samples to store on the Martian surface, and testing oxygen production from the Martian atmosphere to prepare for future manned missions
5. First colour look
NASA handout photo of Perseverance's first full-colour look at Mars, issued on Monday February 22, 2021.
Photo: NASA