(From the Article) Humanity has never seen anything like this before.
NASA just released amazing, high-definition video that its car-sized Perseverance rover captured during its epic landing inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Thursday (Feb. 18).
The unprecedented footage takes viewers along for Perseverance's harrowing ride, even showing the moment the rover, still attached via cables to its "sky crane" descent stage, hit the red dirt on Jezero's floor.
“For those who wonder how you land on Mars, or why it is so difficult, or how cool it would be to do so — you need look no further," acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk said in a statement today (Feb. 22), when the entry, descent and landing (EDL) footage was unveiled.
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Christian Nestell Bovee
Wow. That was absolutely insane! To think that we as a human race can put something, regardless of whether its a rover or a human, on what we see with the naked eye as an orange speck in a clear, night sky, is amazing. I am looking forward to seeing what the future has in store for humanity out there among the stars.
"Failure is an option here. If you are not failing, you are not innovating enough." -Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and The Boring Company, CEO of Tesla, co-founder of Neurolink and OpenAI
