WORLDTECHNASA's Perseverance rover captures 360-degree view of dusty Neretva Vallis on Mars
NASA has released a 360-degree panorama of Neretva Vallis, a valley inside Mars' Jezero Crater, assembled from 217 images taken by the Perseverance rover. The scene shows a dusty, wind-swept surface today, yet it once carried water into the crater.
Panorama built from rover camera images
The panorama was stitched together from 217 images captured by the Mastcam-Z camera on the Perseverance rover. The pictures were taken on May 20, 2024, which NASA counts as the 1,155th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
NASA published the view itself, so the image and its description come directly from the agency.
A former river channel now under dust
Neretva Vallis looks very different from its past. Today it is a dusty expanse shaped by wind, but billions of years ago a river channel ran through it and delivered fresh water into Jezero Crater.