NASA Provides First Front-Row Seat to Perseverance Rover’s Landing on Mars
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NASA today released first-of-its-kind imagery collected from the Perseverance rover’s descent stage as it landed on the surface of Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18. From the moment of parachute inflation, the camera system covers the entirety of the descent process, showing some of the rover’s intense ride to the surface of Mars’ Jezero Crater. The footage from high definition cameras aboard the spacecraft starts 7 miles (11 kilometers) above Jezero Crater, shows the supersonic deployment of the most massive parachute ever sent to another world, and ends with the rover’s touch down in Jezero Crater. The video chronicles the major milestones of the final minutes of descent as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward its landing on the surface of Mars. Also released today was the mission’s first panorama of the rover’s landing location, taken by the two Navigation Cameras located on its mast. The six-wheeled robotic astrobiologist, the fifth rover the agency has landed on the Red
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- Source collection: NASA
- License: Public Domain (US Government)
- Category: Space