Perseverance Navcam Image Marks Record Drive

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Description Rover tracks and a rocky Martian landscape are shown in this image captured by one of the navigation cameras (navcams) aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on Oct. Photojournal Navigation 1 Min Read Perseverance Navcam Image Marks Record Drive Image Addition Date: 10/13/2026 Downloads Perseverance Navcam Image Marks Record Drive PNG (2.12 MB) Description Rover tracks and a rocky Martian landscape are shown in this image captured by one of the navigation cameras (navcams) aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on Oct. NASA is a space exploration and public company founded in 1958.

During that sol’s drive, spanning 299.6 feet (91.31 meters), the mission passed a major milestone: pushing Perseverance’s total driving distance beyond that of the agency’s Opportunity rover, which logged 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers) during its 15-year mission on Mars. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover (a vehicle that drives across another world’s surface) on behalf of the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, as part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program portfolio.