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Less than a day after NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were hard at work, awaiting the next transmissions from Perseverance. As data gradually came in, relayed by several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, the Perseverance team were relieved to see the rover’s health reports, which showed everything appeared to be working as expected.



Adding to the excitement was a high-resolution image taken during the rover’s landing. While NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover sent back a stop-motion movie of its descent, Perseverance’s cameras are intended to capture video of its touchdown and this new still image was taken from that footage, which is still being relayed to Earth and processed.



Unlike with past rovers, the majority of Perseverance’s cameras capture images in color. After landing, two of the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) captured views from the front and rear of the rover, showing one of its wheels in the Martian dirt. Perseverance got a close-up from NASA’s eye in the sky, as well: NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance. Orbiter, which used a special high-resolution camera to capture the spacecraft sailing into Jezero Crater, with its parachute trailing behind. The High Resolution Camera Experiment (HiRISE) camera did the same for You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. in 2012. JPL leads the orbiter’s mission, while the HiRISE instrument is led by the University of Arizona.


credits: nasa. gov/press-release


sana may signs of life sila matagpuan
 
opinion ko lang pero what if may inhabitants na yung mars? hahahah imagine the chaos it would bring here sa atin pero i don't think NASA will disclose such information hahahah
 
IMO, I think they will disclose kasi the main mission of Perseverance as stated "Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.". If may inhabitants nga then for pretty sure it would be chaos but they will definitely disclose it. Or Someone else will start talking. On the side note, it is a good and scary thing to know we are not alone in the universe.
 
[XX='Palmeras, c: 821183, m: 749074'][/XX] For sure. But facts [in the assumption there is life on Mars] don't care about their feelings. Pero, most likely they will deny it. Just like flat earthers denies the fact that the Earth is round. Pero yeah wild nga pag nangyari yun.
 

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