Mars landing: NASA's Perseverance Mars roverspacecraft successfully touched down on Mars's ancient river delta. Mars landings was one of the the toughest challenges in space exploration.
NASA successfully landed Perseverance rover spacecraft on Mars
NASA successfully landed its largest and most sophisticated science rover on Mars, one of the toughest challenges in space exploration, Perseverance’s landing on Mars was the one of the toughest experiment NASA has ever attempted.
Cheers erupted at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which oversees the agency’s rover fleet, when flight controllers received a signal Thursday at about 3:55 p.m. Eastern time that the rover had landed. Perseverance had traveled 292 million miles (470 million kilometers) since launching July 30 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. - the Hindustan Times reported.
After 203 days and almost 300 million miles, our Perseverance Mars Rover is just getting started. It landed on Mars at 3:55 pm EST on Feb 18, and after sometime spent checking out it's systems, it will be rolling across the Red Planet, looking for signs of ancient Martian life.
- NASA shared on their social media page.
According to EarthSky, Perseverance’s flashy new cameras are expected to have captured much of the landing process. A camera mounted on the back shell of the spacecraft is pointed upward. It recorded a view of the parachutes deploying as it slowed to land. Then, beneath it is a downward-pointing camera on the descent stage, which is supposed to have filmed its first touch-contact with the ground on Mars. This suite of technology will provide us with the most detailed video and photo records of landing on a neighboring world yet. Lori Glaze, who heads the Planetary Science Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, told reporters.
Congratulations to NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the successful landing of the SUV-Sized Perseverance Rover on planet Mars. Among other things, it carries a drone helicopter — an engineering test of flight, maneuvering, & navigation in the rarified Martian atmosphere.- Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote on his Facebook
