Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, and JPL Director Michael Watkins give a thumbs up at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) following the successful Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing on February 18, 2021 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
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NASA scientists celebrated the successful landing of the ‘Perseverance’ rover on Mars following a seven month mission. On Thursday, the first images of the red planet were beamed down to Earth into mission control at a lab in Pasadena, California.
Radar locked and cameras on. Looking for a safe spot for touchdown. About to cut free from a perfectly good parachute. I’m all in.#CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/Eilc5Zq3ZW
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 18, 2021
The landing was part of a larger mission, which started in July with the goal of finding signs of ancient life on Mars. The rover carried a number of tools including a helicopter drone, which will take photos, record audio clips and collect samples from Mars to bring back to Earth.
I’ve come nearly 300 million miles, and I’m just getting started. Hear from the team about my picture-perfect landing and what comes next.
LIVE at 2:30 p.m. PST (5:30 p.m. EST/20:30 UTC) https://t.co/fciqGe8GpC pic.twitter.com/5XgclFaGtB
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 18, 2021
Scientists want to analyze the samples to see if human life could be supported on another planet.
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