Google showcases NASA's Perseverance's photo gallery; Check it out

The rover's tweet indicated that in its six months on Mars, it had amassed a sizable collection of photos. The probe on Mars has taken over 1,25,000 pictures.

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Since NASA's Mars Perseverance rover landed on the red planet in February 2021, it hasn't stopped taking photographs. Google stated in a tweet that "there is no better landscape photographer than a mars rover." In response, the Mars rover's official Twitter account replied, "When you're in a new place, you can't help but snap a lot of photographs." 
The rover's tweet indicated that in its six months on Mars, it had amassed a sizable collection of photos. The probe on Mars has taken over 1,25,000 pictures.

Google also released a video that shows how Perseverance's Google Photos app will look. The movie features pictures shot by the robotic explorer that have been combined into a music video using Michal Crawford's upbeat song "Put on your Sunday clothes."

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Pictures shot by the rover scroll across the screen, categorised as Shadow Selfies, Landscapes, Rocks, and more. The movie also includes selfies of the rover and the Mars helicopter Ingenuity.

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The rover published its raw image gallery, quoting Google's tweet. The collection contains images of soil samples, the Mars horizon, and the planet's own bodily components. On August 20, the rover tweeted a time-lapse of Deimos, one of Mars' moons.

 

NASA selects an image of the week from the rover's images based on public voting. The photograph from the previous week depicts martian rocks and weaker sunlight and a part of the rover. The rover captured the image from the top of a Martian hill known as 'Citadelle.' The rover was launched from Earth in July 2020 to discover indications of extraterrestrial life on Mars.

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