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NASA has released a new set of photographs during the procedure to land the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars. The spectacular images capture both close-ups, with the vehicle’s wheels on Martian soil, and a long-distance view from a satellite orbiting the Red Planet.
In one of the frames you can see the Perseverance rover from above, wired to the module that brought it to the planet’s surface. The image is very clear, you can see very clearly countless instruments on the platform of the rover, but also the six wheels that will take you through the Jezero crater.
Other images closely capture one of the vehicle’s wheels and the planet’s arid soil. Unlike the first images sent Thursday night, they are in color.
Finally, there is another shot from afar, aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite, which was photographed with a high-resolution camera 700 kilometers away as Perseverance parachutes through the thin atmosphere of Mars.
To the left of the image is the delta of the river that flowed several billion years ago into the Jezero crater, NASA explains, noting that very careful coordination was needed to capture the frame.
Editor: Bogdan Pacurar
