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23/02/2021
Watch the landing. Credits: NASA
NASA has released stunning footage of its new rover s descent towards the Martian surface, the first time video of a craft landing on another planet has ever been recorded.
Perseverance successfully touched down on Mars last week, prompting applause in the control room back on Earth. But those celebrations were solely based on data sent back by the car-sized machine - they d have to wait hours for video of the actual descent to arrive. These are days that I’ve waited years for - it almost doesn t seem real, descent imagery team member Adam Nelessen told
NASA captured the video with several HD cameras fitted on the various parts of the landing craft and the Mars rover. The agency also released the first audio coming in from the Red Planet.