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A small metal American flag attached to the Mars Perceverance rover's mast. The mast is white with silver metal pieces attached to it. There is red dust all over the mast. The image appears in a vignette that looks like a rectangle rotated diagonally; the rest of the image is dark.

Old Glory on the Red Planet

This close-up view of the United States flag plate on NASA's Perseverance was acquired on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of its mission to Mars), by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) imager on the turret at the end of the rover's Mars robotic arm.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

TakenJune 28, 2025

Image CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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