In honor of today’s launch, we offer the first image that we acquired as a candidate landing site for the Mars 2020 rover (Perseverance), who we hope to see in February 2021. Good luck!

ID: ESP_037396_1985
date: 19 July 2014
altitude: 279 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_037396_1985
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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