Perseverance Mars rover begins 820-foot climb up 'Witch Hazel Hill'

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Perseverance Mars rover begins 820-foot climb up 'Witch Hazel Hill'
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Rahul Rao is a graduate of New York University's SHERP and a freelance science writer, regularly covering physics, space, and infrastructure. His work has appeared in Gizmodo, Popular Science, Inverse, IEEE Spectrum, and Continuum. He enjoys riding trains for fun, and he has seen every surviving episode of Doctor Who.

Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesThe route that the agency's Perseverance Mars rover is expected to take as it climbs up the western rim of Jezero Crater is superimposed on this image taken by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

"As we start the Crater Rim Campaign, our rover is in excellent condition, and the team is raring to see what's on the roof of this place," said Art Thompson, Perseverance’s project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in This map shows the route NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will take as it climbs the western rim of Jezero Crater, first reaching"Dox Castle," then investigating the"Pico Turquino" area before approaching"Witch Hazel Hill."Long, long ago, water might have streamed down Neretva Vallis, against Perseverance's direction of travel, to fill the lakebed that is now Jezero Crater. That water, if it ever existed, is now long gone.

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