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NASA’s Perseverance rover, living up to its name, lands on Mars

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The NASA Perseverance rover, launched in 2020, successfully landed on Mars after completing a journey of 292.5 million-mile from Earth. The touchdown was ‘flawless’ and the rover immediately sent back first images of the landing site, in which the shadow of the rover over the surface of its landing site of Jezero Crater was apparent.

The acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk said, “This landing is one of those pivotal moments for NASA, the United States, and space exploration globally — when we know we are on the cusp of discovery and sharpening our pencils, so to speak, to rewrite the textbooks.”

“The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission embodies our nation’s spirit of persevering even in the most challenging of situations, inspiring, and advancing science and exploration. The mission itself personifies the human ideal of persevering toward the future and will help us prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet in the 2030s.”

Colorized versions of the screen capture of NASA Perseverance's first images after its successful landing on Mars
Credit: NASA
Colorized versions of the screen capture of NASA Perseverance’s first images after its successful landing on Mars
Credit: NASA
A composite CTX image of the NASA Perseverance landing ellipse, with the Terrain Relative Navigation data overlain on top. Yellow indicates bad and red worse. The spacecraft did an impeccable job of navigating the surface and finding the safe spot in the blue field amongst yellow and red. Credit: NASA
A composite CTX image of the NASA Perseverance landing ellipse, with the Terrain Relative Navigation data overlain on top. Yellow indicates bad and red worse. The spacecraft did an impeccable job of navigating the surface and finding the safe spot in the blue field amongst yellow and red. Credit: NASA
The landing site of NASA Persevere in Jezero Crater, Mars.
Credit: NASA
The landing site in color
The interactive map shows the landing site of the Mars rover. Credit: NASA

Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, also said, “Because of today’s exciting events, the first pristine samples from carefully documented locations on another planet are another step closer to being returned to Earth.”

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