"Perseverance safely on the surface of Mars." Moments after touchdown, Perseverance beamed back its first black-and-white images from the Martian surface, one of them showing the rover's shadow cast on the desolate, rocky landing site. Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover team watch in mission control as the first images arrive moments after the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, U.S. February 18, 2021. Deputy Project Manager for the rover, Matt Wallace, said the descent and landing systems "performed flawlessly." French President Emmanuel Macron attends a viewing of the landing of the NASA Perseverance Mars rover on the planet Mars, at the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES) in Paris, France, February 18, 2021.

Source: bd News24 February 19, 2021 03:00 UTC