HazCam
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right|thumb|300px|Hazcam image of Botany Bay and [[Solander Point (2013)]] right|thumb|300px|Hazcam images indicated to NASA engineers that the Opportunity Rover|Opportunity rover was stuck in a sand dune.
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right|thumb|300px|Hazcam image of Botany Bay and [[Solander Point (2013)]] right|thumb|300px|Hazcam images indicated to NASA engineers that the Opportunity Rover|Opportunity rover was stuck in a sand dune.
Hazcams (short for hazard avoidance cameras) are photographic cameras mounted on the front and rear of NASA's Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity and Perseverance rover missions to Mars and on the lower front portion of the Chinese Yutu rover mission to the Moon and the Zhurong rover to Mars. thumb|An image depicting the backshell of the CNSA Tianwen-1 Mars rover Zhurong, seen here from the rear HazCam mounted on the rover's back. thumb|An image depicting the backshell of the CNSA Tianwen-1 Mars rover Zhurong, seen here from the front HazCam mounted on the rover's front.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HazCam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.