NASA releases stunning new video for the first time from its Perseverance rover's landing on Mars last week.
New footage shows the Perseverance rover's entry, descent and landing on the red planet.The footage, shot from multiple cameras, captures the rover's entry, descent and landing on the red planet's Jezero Crater on Feb. 18.
After unveiling the new footage at the news conference, Watkins said it"gives me goosebumps every time I see it."This NASA photo released, Feb. 22, 2021, shows a panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASAs Perseverance Mars rover, stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Earth.
The video captured the entire descent onto Mars, from the parachute inflation to its ultimate touchdown in the Jezero Crater. NASA said five cameras on three different parts of the spacecraft collected the imagery. NASA also released imagery on Monday that features the 360-degree views from Perseverance of Mars' landscape.
Finally, NASA released the first audio recordings of sounds from Mars, which picked up both mechanical noises from the rover but also the utterances of a Martian breeze.
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