While the world eagerly watched NASA’s Perseverance rover on Thursday successfully touched on Mars, took over social media screenshots of excited viewers taking to the Red Planet.
Most were courtesy of NASA March throughput photo booth, a virtual photo on where you can upload a photo to see yourself (or a certain one) short-term senator) posed on Mars, next to NASA’s robotic robot or the Atlas V rocket that launched it into space, or on the ground during mission control. This is one of several interactive features the agency was created for space lovers to venture into the hype, including various social media filters, an interactive launch package and a 3-D tour through the Perseverance.
‘Welcome to Mars! We can not take you (yet!) To Mars, but we can bring the Red Planet to you, ‘reads NASA’s photobook page.
NASA originally launched its series of Perseverance-themed delights this past summer, but the long-awaited launch of the rover this week sparked a fresh wave of pseud0-Mars selfies on Twitter, Instagram and the like. (If you’ve snapped one, feel free to share it in the comments!)
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NASA’s collaborator successfully landed on Mars at 15:55 ET (12:55 PT) on Thursday and touched it in the Jezero crater, the site of a former lake and river delta. The 2,260-pound rover will search the Red Planet over the next two years for evidence that it once had a microscopic life. The Perseverance, now the fifth rover to reach the surface of Mars, is one of three missions this month with the UAE’s Hope Sin and China’s Tianwen – 1 mission.