Overview

• On May 10, 2025, NASA’s Perseverance rover celebrated its 1,500th sol on Mars with a composite selfie featuring a dust devil in the background.
• The selfie, created from 59 images taken by the WATSON camera, required 62 precision robotic arm movements over the course of an hour.
• The image highlights the 'Bell Island' borehole, the rover’s latest sampling site in the Witch Hazel Hill area of Jezero Crater’s western rim.
• Since landing in February 2021, Perseverance has analyzed 37 rocks, collected 26 core samples, and traveled over 22 miles on Mars.
• The rover remains fully operational, with all systems nominal, as it continues its mission to explore Mars’s geology, climate, and potential signs of past microbial life.