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Mars: Nasa's Perseverance rover sends stunning images - BBC News

Nasa's Perseverance rover landed on Mars at 20:55 GMT on 18 February after almost seven months travelling from Earth.
Since then, it has sent back some amazing images from around its landing site, Jezero Crater, a 49km (30-mile) wide impact depression just north of the Red Planet's equator.
Here is a selection of the pictures sent back from the mission, as Perseverance hunts for signs of past microbial life, seeks to characterise the planet's geology and past climate, and collects Martian rock.
 

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The US space agency's Perseverance rover has wiggled its wheels and undertaken its first Martian drive.
It didn't move far - just 6.5m (21ft) in total.
But Nasa's deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan said it was a significant moment.
"While the rover is still doing a lot of engineering checkouts, the minute the rover begins to move we can consider ourselves explorers on the surface of Mars," she told BBC News.
Nasa's Perseverance rover begins its exploration of Mars - BBC News
 

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Tons of new raw images (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/), including the TRN camera:
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Depends how they've isolated the microphone from the chassis. Shouldn't be too hard to find out.
 

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Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed to No Earlier than April 14

Based on data from the Ingenuity Mars helicopter that arrived late Friday night, NASA has chosen to reschedule the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s first experimental flight to no earlier than April 14.
During a high-speed spin test of the rotors on Friday, the command sequence controlling the test ended early due to a “watchdog” timer expiration.
 
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