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Your friendly neighborhood NASA Mars rover. Exploring the Red Planet since 2012. Team headquartered at @NASAJPL 🚀 (Verification: nasa.gov/socialmedia)

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A penny for your thoughts? This is a 1909 Lincoln penny, and it’s part of the calibration target for my MAHLI instrument. The penny is a nod to a geology tradition, where an object of known scale is used as a size reference for close-up photos of rocks and soil.

A penny for your thoughts? This is a 1909 Lincoln penny, and it’s part of the calibration target for my MAHLI instrument. The penny is a nod to a geology tradition, where an object of known scale is used as a size reference for close-up photos of rocks and soil.