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All Alone on an Alien Planet, Perseverance Rover is Photographed as a Tiny Green Speck in a Sea of Red

All Alone on an Alien Planet, Perseverance Rover is Photographed as a Tiny Green Speck in a Sea of Red

Split image: left side shows a satellite view of Mars with a large red arrow pointing to a small object; right side shows a close-up of a Mars rover on the planet’s rocky surface under a dusty sky.

Humans on Earth may have just run a marathon in under two hours for the first time, but it has taken the Mars Perseverance Rover 1,890 Martian sols -- or five years and four months in Earth time -- to travel 26.2 miles on the Red Planet.

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