The cables were then severed and the rocket crane flies away, landing safely some distance from the rover. The rover swayed a bit as it hung suspended under the crane, which was expected.įinally when the rover touches down, it sent a signal to the crane letting it know the wheels had made contact. The view splits, showing that descent on the right, while at the upper left you see footage from the upward-looking camera that shows the sky crane itself, and the downward-looking camera from the crane of the rover. then plumes of dust twisting and flowing violently as the sky crane's rockets ignite, slowing the descent. You can also see craters, hills, rippling sand dunes, then boulders, then smaller rocks. That delta can be seen for a few moments as the rover descends. It was chosen because it was clearly once a lake filled with water, and there's a huge sediment delta in the northwest of the crater, where a river dumped silt as it flowed into the crater billions of years ago. Perseverance landed in Jezero crater, a 45-kilometer wide impact crater in the northern hemisphere of Mars. ![]() The heat shield was ejected and falls freely where it impacts the ground (which we don't see here, but it's in an image below).Īfter that you can see the surface approaching, taken by a downward-looking cameras on the rover. This is the bottom of the descent package, the part that protected the rover from the heat of entry into the atmosphere, as it plunged downward initially at 20,000 km/hr. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechĪfter that, there's footage from the heat shield ejection once its job was done. The locations of various cameras on the Perseverance landing assembly.
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