Enjoy again the amazing footage showing the moment when NASA's Perseverance rover landed on the surface of Mars in February 2021.
On Friday, February 18, it will be a year to the day since NASA’s Perseverance rover made its extraordinary landing on Mars.
Thanks to a multitude of high-definition cameras fixed to the descent stage and Perseverance itself, the video provided the best view ever seen of a human-made object landing on the surface of another celestial body. Exactly a year on, we thought it’d be fun to take another look at the footage showing that incredible landing. It features Mission Control’s audio feed together with the team’s ecstatic celebrations when confirmation of the successful touchdown came through.
The footage starts with the deployment of the parachute linked to the back shell. A short while later, we see the heat shield, which protected Perseverance from its high-speed entry into Mars’ atmosphere, falling to the ground.
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