This is the first image that NASA’s Perseverance Rover returns after it touched Mars on February 18, 2021.
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NASA on Monday released a new photo of Perseverance Rover Mission on Mars. This was the first image of the mission after it was touched on 18 February 2021 at the local average solar time of 15:53:58 on Mars. It was chosen by public vote and is presented as ‘Image of the Week’ for week 1 (February 14 – February 20, 2021) of the Mars mission.
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover obtained this image of the area in front of it using its built – in front left hazard warning camera A.
On Friday, NASA released beautiful new photos of Perseverance, including one of the robbers gently lowered with a set of cables to the surface of Mars, the first time such a view was captured.
The high resolution was still extracted from a video taken by the spaceship transporting the rover off Earth.
Image by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, captures bite as it parachutes through the atmosphere.
At that moment, the turn-off stage used its six-engine aircraft package to decelerate to a speed of about 2.7 kilometers per hour as part of the ‘skycrane maneuver’, the final phase of landing.
The three straight lines are mechanical reins that keep the rover below the turn-off stage, while the curled cable was used to transfer the data from the cameras to Perseverance.
When the rover touches, it cuts 6.4-meter-long cables, causing the descent stage to fly for its own safe landing.
Another new image, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, captures perseverance as it parachutes hundreds of miles per hour through the atmosphere.
A second color image shows one of the Rover’s six wheels, with several honeycombs that are more than 3.6 billion years old.
Volcanic rocks in particular can be dated with very high precision once the samples are brought back to Earth on a future return mission – an exciting development from a planetary scientific perspective.
Especially volcanic rocks can be dated with a very high precision as soon as the samples are brought to earth on a future return mission
The first two images were released Thursday shortly after the rover landed, but they have a lower resolution and in black and white due to the limited available data rate.
NASA hopes to have more high-resolution photos and videos in the coming days, but does not yet know if it first recorded audio using Mars using microphones.