The photos were snapped by the Mastcam-Z camera system, which mission operators describe as the rover's 'main eyes.'
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Jim Bell, principal investigator for the rover's Mastcam-Z instruments, said in a statement prior to the mission's launch:"Mastcam-Z will be the main eyes of NASA's next Mars rover." The zoom of the system is so powerful that Mastcam-Z can see features as small as a house fly from a distance equivalent to the length of a soccer field, according to NASA.
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