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 Planet, is currently undergoing an extensive checkout of all its systems and instruments. Footage includes: 1. Rover descent cam (view from belly of the rover looking down) 2. Parachute up-view cam 3. Descent stage down-look cam (from the descent stage looking down at the rover) 4. Parachute up-view cam 2 5. Rover up-look camera )from the rover looking up toward the descent stage) 6. Parachute deploy slowed to 30% speed 7. Rover’s Panorama Audio clips: 1. 17 seconds of audio including wind and rover noise 2. 17 seconds of audio with wind only, rover noise filtered out Edited Video: Landing views with control room audio. (Includes descriptive text on screen)

Original source date: 2021-02-22

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