Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance rover sent a selfie from Mars taken against the sweeping backdrop of a region scientists call the ‘Lac de Charmes.’ Since landing on Mars five years ago, Perseverance has been analyzing minerals as it travels west across the dry terrain of the Red Planet. On Tuesday, NASA released the latest selfie taken by the rover — its sixth since landing on Mars in 2021. Assembled from 61 individual images, the selfie shows Perseverance pointing its mast toward a rocky outcrop in the foreground after creating a circular abrasion patch. During the abrasion process, the rover grinds away part of a rock’s surface so the science team can study material beneath it. The image was captured on March 11 during the rover’s farthest push west beyond the crater since arriving on Mars. The western rim of Jezero Crater can be seen stretching into the distance behind it.…