By Dean Murray

How's this for a holiday snap? A robot has snapped an image of the Red Planet with a blue sky.

The imaging team of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took advantage of clear skies recently to capture one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far.

Visible in the mosaic, which was stitched together from 96 images taken at a location the science team calls Falbreen, are a rock that appears to lie on top of a sand ripple, a boundary line between two geologic units, and hills as distant as 40 miles (65 kilometers) away.

However, the space scientists say Mars isn't suddenly an ideal destination for a vacation as the blue sky is due to image processing carried out to better study the Martian terrain to prepare for future space travel.

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