NASA's Perseverance rover has sent home its latest postcard from Mars, which is a stunning "selfie" taken against the backdrop of what scientists call the "Lac de Charmes".

The image taken beyond Jezero Crater marks the rover's deepest push west since landing more than five years ago, and its sixth self-portrait since arriving on the Red Planet in 2021.

"We took this image when the rover was in the 'Wild West' beyond the Jezero Crater rim, the farthest west we have been since we landed at Jezero a little over five years ago," Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said as quoted by NASA.

"We had just abraded and analysed the 'Arethusa' outcrop, and the rover was sitting in a spot that provided a great view of both the Jezero Rim and the local terrain outside of the crater.""A selfie image of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars.

It sits next to a rocky outcrop nicknamed 'Arethusa'. The rover and the background soil are a warm tan tone, and the sky is peachy beige," NASA wrote while describing the image.

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