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The rover Perseverance just landed last week. HiRISE can take high-resolution images of the surface of Mars. Will it be able to take pictures of Perseverance? (Has it already taken images of the Perseverance landing site?)

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Here's HiRISE's picture of Perseverance and EDL hardware on the ground:

Annotated orbital image of Perseverance rover's landing zone (Source, Unannotated higher-res original)

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    $\begingroup$ Note that Perseverance is the middle dot of the three. The other two white spots in that box are blast effects from the skycrane. $\endgroup$
    – Mark
    Commented Feb 25, 2021 at 3:35

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