NASA releases first Mars orbiter photo of Perseverance rover on red planet

NASA has released the first photo taken by the Mars orbiter of the Perseverance rover on the red planet’s surface. The photo captured by the orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Experiment camera as it passed overhead at a height of around 180 miles (289.68 km), Perseverance appears as a tiny dot on the landscape. The photo also shows the back shell and parachute, which helped Perseverance to land.