NASA's Perseverance rover may have performed the 'seven minutes of terror' alone, but a new video of the descent makes viewers feel as if they too were along for the ride. Perseverance used its Terrain-Relative Navigation system during the descent, which helped it find a landing site through a series of pictures - and NASA stitched them together to create the video. 'You're looking at the real deal images I used to make my pinpoint landing,' NASA shared in the tweet with the video. 'For past Mars missions, 99 percent of the potential landing area (the landing ellipse), had to be free of hazardous slopes and rocks to help ensure a safe landing,' NASA shared on its website. And while the rover performed the daring feat, the entire NASA team sat on the edge of their seats waiting for the next radio signal.

Source: Daily Mail March 11, 2021 20:40 UTC