From handcuffs at JPL to Mars donuts at Krispy Kreme and Red Planet’s New York City’s Times Square, people headed out for the Perseverance hunter’s journey.
NASA’s latest Mars rover went down in Jezero Crater on Mars on February 18, 2021 and will explore the Red Planet looking for evidence of life in the past or present.
Video: Perseverance lands on Mars! See mission control points
Live updates: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover mission
Inside Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Dedication Laboratory in Southern California, members of NASA’s Perseverance rover mission team 2020 will celebrate the successful arrival of the rover on the Martian surface on February 18, 2021.
On February 18, 2021, engineer Mallory Lefland will watch Mars 2020 land with joy and anticipation. Lefland sits in the mission support area of Southern California at NASA’s Jet Dedication Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Perseverance chief engineer Adam Steltzner (right) and his team will react in mission control after confirmation that the spacecraft successfully landed on Mars.
During the February 18, 2021 landing on Mars, team members will watch from Mission Control as the first images of a Martian surface returning to Earth from a Perseverance rover. JPL built NASA and directed the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover for NASA.
Perseverance team members watch from mission control as the first images arrive moments after the rover’s successful round.
Another fist marking a fist in the mission control room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
On its way to the surface of the Red Planet, the High Resolution Image Test Camera (HiRISE) captured the rescue platform carrying NASA’s Stability rover through the Martian atmosphere. HiRISE is aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Members of the Mars 2020 persecution team rejoice after receiving confirmation that their precious rover was safely crashing down on the surface of Mars.
NASA JPL’s mission control room is full of fist flaps after the Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars.
As NASA’s Perseverance rover descends to the Martian surface, NASA’s live TV broadcast from Mission Support at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab appears on the One Times Square video board. The main purpose of the rover involves showing the geology of Mars and the climate of the past and collecting and storing Martian rock and regolith samples.
On the video board of One Times Square in New York City, NASA flagged Mars Rover Landing announces the downfall on the Red Planet. The Mars 2020 mission involves finding signs of microbial age, paving the way for human study.
To mark the big day of landing in Perseverance, Krispy Kreme donut offered a limited edition that resembles Mars. Appropriately referred to as the “Mars Donut,” the cosmic creation is filled with chocolate creme and soaked in caramel icing that has been colored to resemble the red planet.
Sustainability Flight Director Magdy Bareh moves the final marble from “Earth launch jar” to “Mars landing jar.” The Sustainability team had been moving one marble a day since it was launched. floated from jar to jar.
NASA mission managers and NASA Perseverance rover scientists mark a successful landing on Mars at the start of an update after landing on Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator at NASA’s Science Mission Steering Group, will tear apart the contingent plan for coming to Perseverance after the mission arrives on the Red Planet.
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