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Perseverance is a tiny pale speck on Mars in this orbiter’s eerie photo – Livescience.com

Wee dots show where the rover and spacecraft parts hit the ground.

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has been spotted on the Martian surface by a camera high overhead, on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
On Feb. 23, the orbiting ExoMars, a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia’s Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, captured an image of Mars showing a tiny, pale dot Perseverance on the ground far below. Released by the ESA
on Feb. 25, the image also shows the rover’s jettisoned parachute and backshell, the heat shield and the rocket-powered…

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