NASA releases Mars landing video: 'Stuff of our dreams'
Source: AP
By MARCIA DUNN
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the red dust kicking up as rocket engines lowered the rover to the surface.
The footage was so good and the images so breathtaking that members of the rover team said they felt like they were riding along.
It gives me goose bumps every time I see it, just amazing, said Dave Gruel, head of the entry and descent camera team.
The Perseverance rover landed last Thursday near an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater to search for signs of ancient microscopic life. After spending the weekend binge-watching the descent and landing video, the team at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, shared the video at a news conference.
This combination of images from video made available by NASA shows steps in the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it approaches the surface of the planet on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
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thx64536
(47 posts)Those rocket scientists are pretty smart!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Perseverance Rovers Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)
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Feb 22, 2021
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The audio embedded in the video comes from the mission control call-outs during entry, descent, and landing.
For more information about Perseverance, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/perseverance
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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wryter2000
(46,016 posts)I'm watching Mars on my computer. Amazing.
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rictofen
(235 posts)Such resolution, very frames per second. Wow!
Layzeebeaver
(1,574 posts)...is that this new landing technology is quite a breakthrough. No more restrictions on landing zones. More accuracy regarding set down options and flexibility concerning science objectives. Also, when and if we ever get human assets on the surface it will be essential that this technology of terrain relative landing radar and site solution calculation will help insure replenishment and/or pre-positioning missions will be spot on target.
Too bad I don't have this in Kerbal Space Program yet.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)I never thought I'd see the day this type of landing would become reality.
This technology has opened the door to real exploration of our Solar System.
Maxheader
(4,366 posts)Can't wait to ride along with rover, see the country...
tonekat
(1,805 posts)Thank you for posting it.