Looking Up, Looking Down

Views of the Perseverance Mars rover landing

Cameras aboard the Perseverance rover snapped these images during the final moments of its descent to the Martian surface. An upward-looking camera caught the colorful parachute (the first image of a parachuting Mars lander captured by the spacecraft itself), while a downward-looking camera viewed the rover’s landing site, in Jezero Crater. NASA has posted a video of the landing recorded by several on-board cameras. [NASA/JPL/ASU]

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