NASA Released Stunning Images of the Perseverance Rover Landing on Mars - Thrillist

Some of the first information relayed from NASA's new rover through spacecraft orbiting Mars and back to Earth was data that indicated the rover was healthy after its "seven minutes of terror" from the top of the planet's atmosphere to the surface.

Friday night, NASA shared one that shows the rover landing.

Curiosity, the last rover to land on Mars, sent back a stop motion movie of its descent.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used a special high-resolution camera to get a glimpse of the spacecraft carrying Perseverance plunging toward Jezero Crater, where Perseverance will live out its days.  

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