This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras on the underside of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after its landing on Feb. 18, 2021.

At a meeting of its Board of Directors 2 October 2003, CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) awarded EADS-Astrium a contract worth €314 million to build two Pleiades satellites.