Old Glory on the Red Planet

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A small American metal flag attached to the Mars of Mars Percence Rover. The mast is white with silver metal parts attached to it. There is red dust all over the mast. The image appears in a vignette that looks like a rectangle turned diagonally; The rest of the image is dark.

NASA / JPL-CALTECH / MSSS

The United States flag decorates an aluminum plate mounted at the base of the mast, or “head”, of the perseverance of NASA, Mars Rover. This image of the plate was taken on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or ground, of the mission), by the Watson camera (wide angle topographic sensor for operations and engineering) at the end of the rover robotic arm.

Watson, which is part of an instrument called Sherloc (habitable sweeping environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals), was built by Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) in San Diego and is used jointly by MSSS and the NASA jet propulsion laboratory in southern California. JPL, which is managed for the agency by Caltech, has built and manages the operations of Rover Perseverance.

Learn more about the last science of perseverance.

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