In Pics | NASA Releases Breathtaking Videos of Landing on Mars
NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the red dust kicking up as rocket engines lowered the rover to the surface.
Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, U.S. February 18, 2021. (NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS
A green dot marks where NASA?s Perseverance Mars rover landed in Jezero Crater on Mars February 18, 2021, in a base image taken by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA?s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via REUTERS
A portion of a panorama made up of individual images taken by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA?s Perseverance Mars rover shows the Martian landscape February 20, 2021. Images taken February 20, 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via REUTERS
The surface of Mars directly below NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is seen using the Rover Down-Look Camera in a combination of images acquired February 22, 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via REUTERS
