This panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, was stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Earth.
The agency's newest rover captured first-of-its-kind footage of its Feb. 18 touchdown and has recorded audio of Martian wind.
New video from NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars. A microphone on the rover also has provided the first audio recording of sounds from Mars.
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NASA's Perseverance rover recorded 60 seconds of Martian sound on Saturday (Feb. 20), just two days after its picture-perfect touchdown inside Jezero Crater . The newly released file, which features mechanical whirring from the rover and the rustle of a Red Planet breeze , is the first true audio ever captured on the surface of Mars.
"Really neat — overwhelming, if you will," Dave Gruel, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, said during a news conference on Monday (Feb. 22). The audio was unveiled during that briefing, as was jaw-dropping video Perseverance captured during its Feb. 18 entry, descent and landing (EDL).
Nearly 11 Million Names of Earthlings are on Mars Perseverance – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
When the Perseverance rover safely touched down on the Martian surface, inside Jezero Crater, on Feb. 18, 2021, it was also a safe landing for the nearly 11 million names on board.
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NASA's " Send Your Name to Mars " campaign invited people around the globe to submit their names to ride along on the rover. And people did – with a grand total of 10,932,295 names submitted. Those names now sit on the surface of Mars, written on three fingernail-sized chips on board the Perseverance rover.
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance touches down on the red planet
It is also the latest of three new missions that arrived at the red planet in February. Earlier this month, two other spacecraft launched by the United Arab Emirates and China reached Mars and moved into orbit around the planet.
The much-anticipated Perseverance mission could answer key questions about Mars' history and evolution, but it's also a crucial stepping stone toward NASA's goal of sending humans to explore the red planet.
For now, mission planners at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are breathing a huge sigh of relief. Only around half of all previous attempts to land on Mars have succeeded, and the Perseverance rover's planned touchdown was considered the riskiest and most challenging.
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Watch Video From NASA's Perseverance Rover Landing on Mars - The New York Times
On Monday, NASA released a short video captured by the agency's Perseverance spacecraft as it dropped through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday last week , ending with the successful arrival of the rover on Mars's surface. It is the first video of its kind sent back to Earth from the planet.
"It gives me goose bumps every time I see it," said David Gruel, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who worked on the camera system that was designed to capture the landing from various angles.
Nuclear-Powered Rockets Could Be The Best Option For Bringing Humans To Mars : NPR
An artist's depiction of a nuclear powered spacecraft of the sort that might one day carry people to Mars. Nuclear could allow for faster journeys, according to the experts. USNC-Tech hide caption
When NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on the Martian surface last week, humans cheered from the confines of planet Earth.
But if the space agency or others hope to leave and send astronauts to Mars, experts say they need to consider a technology that was studied decades ago but never fully developed: nuclear-powered rockets.
Mars video reveals Perseverance rover's daring touchdown
An image of Perseverance taken by a rocket-powered 'sky crane' as it lowered the rover onto Mars's dusty surface on 18 February. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Humanity has just been given a front-row seat to a Mars landing, thanks to a high-resolution, full-colour video that NASA released of its Perseverance rover descending into Jezero Crater on 18 February.
The video shows the drama of the spacecraft's final descent, from the 21.5-metre-wide parachute billowing overhead to slow it down, to the dusty orange landscape of Jezero gently rocking below as Perseverance drifted downwards, to the final moments when the rover's six corrugated wheels touched down on a flat, rock-studded surface.
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I'm taking it all in. This is the first 360ยบ view of my home using Mastcam-Z. This dual, high-definition camera sys… https://t.co/phDvFpCHqH NASAPersevere (from Jezero Crater, Mars) Wed Feb 24 19:18:03 +0000 2021
The parachute of NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars last week, carried a secret message, made in red a… https://t.co/VJWzl3BIbK nytimes (from New York City) Wed Feb 24 20:05:07 +0000 2021
From every corner of the globe, you sent your names to ride aboard with me and now we're here. #CountdownToMars Mi… https://t.co/MzjLocoElA NASAPersevere (from Jezero Crater, Mars) Thu Feb 25 17:43:51 +0000 2021
NASA Welcomes Litter Of Mars Rovers After Successful Breeding Of Perseverance, Curiosity https://t.co/TZFaWpcOMj https://t.co/zAkSgCCrvh TheOnion Thu Feb 25 18:35:58 +0000 2021
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