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5 JULY-AUGUST 2022 ASTRO PUBLISHING T his image of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument of the Perseverance rover on June 15, 2021, the 114 th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The location, “Air- field D” (the fourth airfield), is just east of the “Séítah” geologic unit. [NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS ] J ezero Crater formation by asteroid impact. At Jezero Crater, Perseverance should be able to access rocks that are as old as 3.6 billion years. [NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS]