Perseverance animation shows 807-foot drive along Jezero Crater rim

This animation shows NASA’s Perseverance rover’s point of view during an 807-foot (246-meter) drive along the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2025, the 1,709th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

The sequence was captured over two hours and 35 minutes using 53 Navigation Camera (Navcam) image pairs. Those images were combined with rover data on orientation, wheel speed, and steering angle, as well as data from Perseverance’s Inertial Measurement Unit.

All inputs were placed into a 3D virtual environment to reconstruct the drive, with virtual frames inserted about every 4 inches (0.1 meters) of drive progress to show continuous motion from the rover’s perspective.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed for the agency by Caltech, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover. The release is credited to NASA/JPL-Caltech and labeled PIA26647 with a date of 01/30/2026.

The source presents the reconstructed viewpoint and technical methods used; it does not provide scientific results from the drive or details about subsequent activities.

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