nasa has released remarkable images of its space rover landing on mars, the first of their kind from the planet. it shows the final minutes of last week s tense descent with clouds of dust and grit being blown around as the vehicle is lowered to the floor of the crater. the rover, perseverance, has been sent to an ancient crater lake to search for signs of past life. our global science correspondent rebecca morelle has the story. the parachute has deployed. from the release of a supersonic parachute, to the shedding of a heat shield. first look at the surface. an out of this world view mars as never seen before. as the rover nears the surface, the dust is kicked up, then a change of camera as perseverance is lowered on ropes before touchdown. touchdown confirmed. perseverance safely on the surface of mars! ..and the landing system is jettisoned away. we can t test it on the earth, so this is the first time we ve had a chance as engineers to actually see what we designed and
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. nasa has released truly remarkable images of its space rover landing on mars, the first of their kind from the planet. it shows those final minutes of last week s tense descent with clouds of dust and grit blowing around as the vehicle is lowered to touch down on mars, 293 million miles. 472 million kilometres from earth. the rover, perseverance, has been sent to an ancient lake crater to search for signs of life, from billions of years ago. our global science correspondent rebecca morelle has the story. the parachute has deployed. from the release of a supersonic parachute, to the shedding of a heat shield. first look at the surface. an out of this world view mars as never seen before. as the rover nears the surface, the dust is kicked up, then a change of camera as perseverance is lowered on ropes before touchdown. touchdown confirmed. perseverance safely on the surface of mars! ..and the landing system is jet
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