APOD: 2021 July 1 - Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Thursday, July 1, 2021 entitled "Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity."

Automated and controlled 'selfies' taken by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera, seems to be a modification since this seems to be a portrait of Percy [Perseverance] and Ginny [Ingenuity] posing :-)

Do androids dream of electric sheep was a question posed as the subtitle of Blade Runner which was made into a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott. That is my favorite version.

Image: Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity - Image Credit - NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS

APOD Background
"Explanation: On sol 46 (April 6, 2021) the Perseverance rover held out a robotic arm to take its first selfie on Mars. The WATSON camera at the end of the arm was designed to take close-ups of martian rocks and surface details though, and not a quick snap shot of friends and smiling faces. In the end, teamwork and weeks of planning on Mars time was required to program a complex series of exposures and camera motions to include Perseverance and its surroundings. The resulting 62 frames were composed into a detailed mosiac, one of the most complicated Mars rover selfies ever taken. In this version of the selfie, the rover's Mastcam-Z and SuperCam instruments are looking toward WATSON and the end of the rover's outstretched arm. About 4 meters (13 feet) from Perseverance is a robotic companion, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter."

Jim Croce - Photographs and Memories
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The resulting 62 frames were composed into a detailed mosiac, one of the most complicated Mars rover selfies ever taken. In this version of the selfie, the rover's Mastcam-Z and SuperCam instruments are looking toward WATSON and the end of the rover's outstretched arm. About 4 meters (13 feet) from Perseverance is a robotic companion, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter.

Hard to believe we are looking at the ground of a foreign world...

Great selfie share from the Mars , great seeing the Martian landscape Maj William W. 'Bill' Price , have a great Thursday sir.