Perseverance in Jezero Crater s Delta

Explanation: The Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured images to create this mosaic on August 4, 2022. The car-sized robot was continuing its exploration of the fan-shaped delta of a river that, billions of years ago, flowed into Jezero Crater on Mars. Sedimentary rocks preserved in Jezero's delta are considered one of the best places on Mars to search for potential signs of ancient microbial life and sites recently sampled by the rover, dubbed Wildcat Ridge and Skinner Ridge, are at lower left and upper right in the frame. The samples taken from these areas were sealed inside ultra-clean sample tubes, ultimately intended for return to Earth by future missions. Starting with the Pathfinder Mission and Mars Global Surveyor in 1997, the last 25 years of a continuous robotic exploration of the Red Planet has included orbiters, landers, rovers, and a helicopter from planet Earth.

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How would the Sun's position change if you took a picture every day that included the Sun? An analemma is a picture taken from the same place over a year. The images were taken near the village of Callanish in the Outer Hebrides in the UK. The Callanish Stones were built during the Bronze Age and are in the center of the picture. The placement of the Callanish Stones is unknown. The tilt of the Earth axis is the main cause of the figure-8 shape. The sun will appear at the top or bottom of an analemma at the summer's longest day. The Sun is near the bottom of the featured image. The intersection point is not the analemma middle point. When the day and night are equal over all of Earth, it's called the equinox. A change of season is celebrated by many people.