Perseverance has been continuing its sightseeing tour of the Jezero crater rim, with this week's travel itinerary including an up-close look at Pico Turquino. Here, the team hopes to investigate ...

The most recent stop on its Red Planet road trip? A roughly 656-foot-long (200 meters) outcrop named Pico Turquino. But it's not all fun and games for the Mars rover. Perseverance has been ...

Moving on from the Pico Turquino Hills, Perseverance will spend the next six months exploring an area called Witch Hazel Hill. Located away from the crater, ...

A map shows the route Perseverance will take (in blue) as it climbs the western rim of Jezero Crater, first reaching “Dox Castle,” then investigating the “Pico Turquino” area before ...

The Perseverance rover is making a long trek up a crater rim to study potentially habitable environments and some of the most ancient rocks on Mars.

Photos snapped from orbit suggest that Pico Turquino has some ancient fractures that may be remnants of hydrothermal systems from Mars’ distant past, according to NASA.

This panorama shows the area NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will climb in coming months to crest Jezero Crater’s rim. It is made up of 59 images taken by the rover’s Mastcam-Z on Aug. 4.

Perseverance's ascent will first take the rover through Pico Turquino, a slope riddled with ground fractures that may be the fingerprints of ancient hydrothermal activity.

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