On January 2, 2022 NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover transmitted latest images of Mars with interesting rock captured on Mastcam-Z on Dec 29, 2021. According to NASA’s official publication in the 10 months since, the car-size rover has driven 1.8 miles (2.9 kilometers), set a record for the longest rover drive in a Martian day, taken more than 100,000 images, and collected six samples of Martian rock and atmosphere that could eventually be brought to Earth for further study. All images made by rover’s left and right Mastcam-Z cameras. location captured by Mastcam-Z. Mars 2022 aRover uses this cameras to take high-definition video, panoramic color and 3D images of the Martian surface and features in the atmosphere with a zoom lens to magnify distant targets. They are mounted on the rover mast at the eye level of a 6 ½-foot-tall person (2 meters tall). The cameras are separated by 9.5 inches (24.2 centimeters) to provide stereo vision. Image resolution of Mastcam-Z cameras onboard Perseverance is 1600 by 1200 pixels maximum.
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