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T his image of Perseverance’s back- shell sitting upright on the sur- face of Jezero Crater was collected from an altitude of 26 feet (8 meters) by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 26 th flight at Mars on April 19, 2022. The tangle of cables seen streaming out from the top of the backshell, and coated with Martian dust on the surface, are high- strength suspension lines that con- nect the backshell to Perseverance’s supersonic parachute (upper left). The backshell and parachute helped protect the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface. The shadow cast by Ingenuity is visible at the bottom left of the image. [NASA/JPL-Caltech ]