After about a day on the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has snapped its first color photos of the red planet.

The rover successfully landed on Thursday near what used to be a river delta on Mars’s Jezero Crater. The crater used to be filled with water, and researchers are hoping that Perseverance might find signs of ancient microbial life. On Friday, NASA released the first color images from its landing spot.

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