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Update: NASA’s Perseverance Lands Safely on Mars

NFK Editors - February 19, 2021

This article is an update to the story: NASA’s Perseverance Set to Land On Mars.

NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down safely on Mars Yesterday. NASA scientists carefully followed updates sent by Perseverance, which allowed them to track the progress of the spacecraft. Because of the distance between Earth and Mars, the information arrived several minutes after it had already happened.

Members of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover team watch in Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California as the first images arrive moments after the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.
In the control room, members of NASA’s Perseverance team clapped as word came back that the lander had completed each new step of the landing. Above, members of NASA’s Perseverance team watch as the first images arrive.
(Source: Bill Ingalls/NASA.)

In the control room, members of NASA’s Perseverance team clapped as word came back that the lander had completed each new step of the landing. When the Perseverance finally touched down, the control room broke into long cheers.

A few minutes after landing, the Perseverance sent back its first picture of the Martian surface. NASA is now running through tests of the Perseverance to make sure everything is working well.

This is the first image NASA’s Perseverance rover sent back after touching down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. The view, from one of Perseverance’s Hazard Cameras, is partially obscured by a dust cover. A grey-scale image of a dusty, rocky Mars surface, with the shadow of the Perseverance Rover seen in the foreground.
A few minutes after landing, the Perseverance sent back its first picture of the Martian surface (above). NASA is now running through tests of the Perseverance to make sure everything is working well.
(Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.)

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