First Mars photos from NASA rover Perseverance

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• NASA Releases Stunning Footage of Perseverance Rover's Mars Landing No humans have set foot on Mars yet, but we're getting very good at landing our spacecraft there and taking loads of video (and audio) like a hyper tourist. The latest NASA Mars Rover, Perseverance, landed on the Red Planet on February 18, 2021, and it is already sending back media that promises the clearest look humanity has ever had at the surface of our mysterious neighbor—and eerily, for the first time ever, we have an idea of what Mars sounds like. Perseverance just after landing.Below are audio samples recorded by ultra-sensitive microphones on Perseverance. This is the sound of…
• Stunning photos from NASA's new Mars rover reveal 200-foot cliffs, mysterious rocks, and a perfect touchdown Summary List PlacementNASA's Perseverance rover hasn't started roaming the red planet just yet, but its cameras have been busy at work. A suite of ruggedized, off-the-shelf sports cameras captured unprecedented footage of the rover descending to Mars and landing in Jezero Crater on Thursday. Then the rover's science and navigation cameras began snapping away as soon as it was on the ground. The results are breathtaking. So far, NASA has published more than 4,700 images from the rover, with many more to come. "It's been a firehose of data," Justin Maki, a Perseverance imaging scientist and the chief of the…
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