The Perseverance rover has been exploring the Jezero crater on Mars for over a year. When he finds interesting rock formations, he drills through them with his drill and takes samples of Martian soil to be sent back to Earth. He was recently moving forward to investigate a river delta that is thought to have brought water to this crater billions of years ago.
Perseverance travels most of this way on its own, autonomously. During this journey, it also passed by its parachute, which slowed its descent to Mars and then separated from the main body. The remains of the parachute were first spotted by a sharp-eyed NASA engineer in photographs taken on April 6, and NASA confirmed that what was seen was a parachute. The aforementioned image, which you can see above, was published by NASA.
Perseverance, which broke the record for distance travel on Mars, continues its journey towards the delta.
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