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A split second before the umbilical cable is cut, the Sky Crane captures its last image of the rover in the cloud of dust raised by its thrusters.

The camera was located on the Sky Crane but the images were transferred through the umbilical cable to the rover.

De-bayered, processed EDL_RUCAM
RMC: 0.0000 (prelanding, corrected)
Sol: 0 (corrected)
Original: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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