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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
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                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                    2025 June 7   
      
                        Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity   
                       Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS   
      
      Explanation: On the Mars rover's mission Sol 46 or Earth date April 6,   
      2021, Perseverance held out a robotic arm to take its first selfie on   
      Mars. The WATSON camera at the end of the arm was designed to take   
      close-ups of Martian rocks and surface details though, and not a quick   
      snap shot of friends and smiling faces. In the end, teamwork and weeks   
      of planning on Mars time was required to program a complex series of   
      exposures and camera motions to include Perseverance and its   
      surroundings. The resulting 62 frames were composed into a detailed   
      mosaic, one of the most complicated Mars rover selfies ever taken. In   
      this version of the selfie, the rover's Mastcam-Z and SuperCam   
      instruments are looking toward WATSON and the end of the rover's   
      outstretched arm. About 4 meters (13 feet) from Perseverance is a   
      robotic companion, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter. Perseverance has now   
      spent over 1,500 sols exploring the surface of the Red Planet. On Earth   
      date January 18, 2024, Ingenuity made its 72nd and final flight through   
      the thin Martian atmosphere.   
      
                        Tomorrow's picture: Facing NGC 3344   
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