Perseverance Rover's Descent and Touchdown on Mars

  • Released Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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Views of Mission Control and on Mars during Perseverance's descent

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.

For More Information

See https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25628/perseverance-rovers-descent-and-touchdown-on-mars-onboard-camera-views/

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

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    • Amy Moran (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)

This page was originally published on Wednesday, October 4, 2023.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:45 AM EST.