Since landing on Mars on February 18, NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back some amazing images from around its landing site, Jezero Crater, a 30-mile wide impact depression just north of the Red Planet’s equator. BBC shares a selection of the pictures sent from the mission, “as Perseverance hunts for signs of past microbial life, seeks to characterize the planet’s geology…
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Perseverance rover snaps gorgeous HD panorama of Mars landing site
Perseverance has captured a high-definition, 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Mars’ Jezero Crater, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago. Source: https://www.livescience.com/perseverance-rover-1st-mars-hd-panorama.html
Perseverance rover gives high-definition panoramic view of landing site
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees, allowing the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument to capture its first panorama after touching down on the Red Planet on Feb 18. It was the rover’s second panorama ever, as the rover’s Navigation Cameras, or…
Cool video! Perseverance’s descent and touchdown on Mars
Check out this amazing new video from NASA’s Perseverance rover, showing its own descent and landing on the surface of Mars last week. Truly, it’s like nothing seen before! Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/video-perseverance-rover-descent-and-touchdown-on-mars…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red Planet
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. From a report: From…
Now that Perseverance has landed on Mars, what will the rover do inside Jezero Crater?
Looking at the engineering and science behind selecting samples for NASA’s Perseverance rover. Source: https://www.livescience.com/how-mars-perserverance-rover-picks-samples.html
A new 7 minutes of terror: See the nail-biting Mars landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover in this video
Perseverance will attempt to land inside Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. A new video shows how the spacecraft’s harrowing entry, descent and landing will work. Source: https://www.livescience.com/perseverance-mars-2020-rover-landing-video.html
Photo tour of Jezero Crater: Here’s where Perseverance will land on Mars
Here’s a look at Mars’ Jezero Crater, the gorgeous basin where the Perseverance rover is expected to touch down and look for signs of ancient microbial life. Source: https://www.livescience.com/mars-jezero-crater-perseverance-photos.html
Get ready for Perseverance’s landing on Mars February 18
Some call attempts to land on Mars “7 minutes of terror.” The Perseverance mission will provide the most detailed video and photos of a landing yet. We’ll watch ourselves land on another planet, for the first time ever. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/get-ready-nasa-perseverance-landing-feb2021…
Hey, kids! Meet the new Hot Wheels Mars rover!
Mattel, maker of Hot Wheels, has just released a new Hot Wheels Mars Perseverance Rover to celebrate the landing of the NASA Perseverance rover on Mars on February 18. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/hot-wheels-mars-perseverance-rover-mattel…