India, May 24 -- A latest selfie by NASA's Perseverance rover at Mars has featured a new guest: a Martin dust devil. In the picture, Martin dust devil can be seen as a small pale puff of the twirling dust popped up about 5 kilometres behind the rover. The photo shoot that was done this month marked 1,500 sols (Martian days) for Perseverance, equivalent to 1,541 days on Earth. This selfie is a composite of 59 images taken by the camera fixed on the end of the rover's robotic arm.

It also features the rover's latest sample borehole on the surface. The picture was taken when the rover was parked in an area nicknamed "Witch Hazel Hill," near Jezero Crater, which Perseverance has been exploring for the past five months.

Megan Wu, an imaging ...