🤖 NASA’s Perseverance rover captured 61 images with its WATSON camera mounted on the robotic arm, stitching them together into a spectacular selfie. In the foreground is the rocky outcrop “Arethusa,” where the rover recently abraded the surface to prepare it for spectroscopic analysis.

The self-portrait of the robot, which has been operating on the Red Planet since 2021, is not just visually impressive. These images help engineers monitor the condition of the rover’s instruments and mechanical systems.

For scientists, the photo is valuable as well — the high-resolution imagery contains enough geological and environmental detail to support yet another scientific study of Mars.