Mars 2020 landing ellipse in Jezero Crater
Mars 2020 landing ellipse in Jezero Crater
This image shows the northwest of the 35-kilometre-wide Jezero Crater north of the Martian equator with the remains of an ancient delta, near which the Mars rover Perseverance will land on 18 February 2021 at 21:55 CET (signal arrival on Earth). The delta was formed by sediments carried along by a river that flowed into the crater from the west and whose dried-up valley is still clearly visible today. Here, the Perseverance rover will search for fossil microbial life and collect samples for later transport to Earth. The image was acquired by DLRs High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft.
