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+  "date": "2024-06-28T18:35:07.000Z",
+  "title": "The Maze is Afoot",
+  "canonicalUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/the-maze-is-afoot/",
+  "imageUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/pia26337orig.jpg",
+  "imageAlt": "A black and white image of a circular labyrinth. A silhouette of Sherlock Holmes holding a magnifying glass is at the center of the labyrinth.",
+  "author": "Monika Luabeya"
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+This labyrinth – with a silhouette of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes at its center – is used as a calibration target for the cameras and laser that are part of SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals), one of the instruments aboard [NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover](https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/). The image was captured by the Autofocus and Context Imager on SHERLOC on May 11, 2024, as the rover team sought to confirm it had successfully addressed an issue with a stuck lens cover.
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+The Perseverance rover searches for signs of [ancient microbial life](https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/), to advance NASA’s quest to explore the past habitability of Mars. The rover is collecting core samples of Martian rock and soil (broken rock and soil), for potential pickup by a future mission that would bring them to Earth for detailed study.
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+_Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech_