Perseverance on Mars — Jezero Crater

Perseverance landed in Jezero Crater — a former lake and river delta — in February 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and cache samples for future return to Earth.

• The layered slopes of a Martian mountain rising above a boulder-strewn crater floor.

  Gale Crater, Mars

  Public Domain

  Curiosity on Mars — Gale Crater

  NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

• Saturn backlit by the Sun, its rings glowing, with a tiny bright point of light that is Earth in the distance.

  Saturn and its rings, with Earth

  Public Domain

  Saturn — The Day the Earth Smiled

  NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

• A glowing golden disc of the Sun with bright active regions and looping arcs of plasma.

  The Sun

  Public Domain

  The Sun in Extreme Ultraviolet

  NASA/SDO and the AIA science team

• Jupiter in infrared, with glowing polar aurorae, bright cloud bands, and faint rings.

  Jupiter

  Public Domain

  Jupiter (James Webb Space Telescope)

  NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team

• A dark mosaic of narrow frames, each containing a tiny point of light marking a planet.

  The Solar System, from Voyager 1

  Public Domain

  The Solar System Family Portrait

  NASA/JPL-Caltech