Mastcam-Z is a multi-color, stereo imaging system on NASA’s Perseverance rover. Mastcam-Z uses a pair of focusable, zoomable cameras on the rover’s mast to image in “human-like” red/green/blue colors and in ultraviolet and infrared colors just beyond the range of human color perception. At maximum zoom, the cameras see features as small as the tip of a pencil close by, and the size of an almond from a football field away.

Learn about the cameras

The Mastcam-Z team includes around 100 scientists, engineers, technicians, managers, administrators, and students, many of whom have been working on the design, building, testing, and operations planning for the cameras since we were selected by NASA in 2014. Some members of the team have decades of experience in NASA deep space robotic missions and others are brand new, but all of us are super excited about taking pictures on Mars with Mastcam-Z!

Meet the team