NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23. A rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls,” which has features that may bear on the question of whether the Red Planet was long ago home to microscopic life, is to the left of the rover near the center of the image. —NASA/JPL-Caltech/ MSSS
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January’s Night Sky Notes: The Red Planet
Have you looked up at the night sky this season and noticed a bright object, sporting a reddish hue, to the left of Orion? This is non other than the planet Mars.
