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Pictures were taken by rotating the rover's mast 360 degrees. The mast is equipped with dual, zoomable cameras which can take high-definition video and images. The US space agency NASA has ...

The pictures depict the Tharsis region of Mars, known for its colossal volcanoes like Olympus Mons, along with Phobos, Mars' largest moon, which orbits much closer to the planet than Earth's moon ...

Less than a day after NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California ...