The diverse rocks, materials, features and mineralogy found in and around Jezero crater tell the story of Mars’ complex geological history. Perseverance landed in Jezero crater in February 2021. This wealth of information has been essential in the assessment and selection of safe, scientifically useful landing sites on Mars for missions to the planet – including Perseverance, a rover carried to Mars by NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. The Mars Express data come courtesy of the spacecraft’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), which has been capturing full-colour, high-resolution snapshots of Mars since 2004 and has mapped over 90% of the planet’s surface. Two inflow channels (Neretva Vallis and Sava Vallis, found on the western-northwestern rim of Jezero) then become visible the most prominent of these branches out into the crater to form an ancient fan-shaped river delta that was the landing site for Perseverance. The crater moves into the foreground roughly halfway through, when an outflow channel can be seen snaking away from the crater wall and towards the camera perspective.

The video begins by panning around Jezero crater, which can be seen in the centre background surrounded by textured and cratered terrain. Explore the fascinating landing site of NASA’s Perseverance rover in this fly-through video, featuring new views of Jezero crater and its surroundings from ESA’s Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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