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Perseverance Mars Touchdown

author: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Novapix

reference: e-son27-64021

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 13 cm

This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (the European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these cached samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.

Keywords for this photo:

2021 - LANDING - MARS - MARS 2020 - PERSEVERANCE - PLANET - ROVER - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -