Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars

 

Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg

 

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover's entry, descent, and landing suite. The views include a camera looking down from the spacecraft's descent stage (a kind of rocket-powered jet pack that helps fly the rover to its landing site), a camera on the rover looking up at the descent stage, a camera on the top of the aeroshell (a capsule protecting the rover) looking up at that parachute, and a camera on the bottom of the rover looking down at the Martian surface.

The audio embedded in the video comes from the mission control call-outs during entry, descent, and landing.

 

 

NASA Release Epic Footage of Perseverance Rover's Descent and Touchdown on Mars

Feb 23, 2021

NASA has just taken it up a notch by uploading the actual footage of the Perseverance Rover’s descent and touch down on Mars‘ Jezero Crater.

 

 

While the initial announcement showed the event through a JPL computer software simulation, this footage is taken from cameras that captured the spacecraft’s descent stage from above, a view from the rover looking up, a view from the top of the aeroshell, and a view from the bottom of the rover looking down at the martian land.

 

Matched with the audio from NASA’s mission control, the video breaks down exactly what is happening in an epic display of engineering, planning, and calculation. The last shot shows the amazing “Sky Crane” maneuver where you can see the rover being lowered down to the surface. Fans of science will not want to miss this unforgettable footage.

 

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You might have seen photos from Mars, but have you seen high-speed video?

We captured our

@NASAPersevere

rover’s final minutes of descent and landing in a way never seen before.

Take a look: https://youtu.be/GUqsH5y1j1M

 

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