NASA Perseverance Rover: Exploring Mars

[pyan]

Title of thread changed to bring it up-to-date.

 

[dask]

Cool, cool, cool!

 

[BigBadBob141]

What is incredible to me is it has its own helicopter, flying in just one percent of our atmospheric pressure, to be honest I didn't think this was possible.
Still come to think of it parachutes are used in its descent so there is that, plus the helicopter is about the size of a drone, so who knows, one day there might be manned ones out there.
Not like the SF book where they used helicopters to explore the Moon!
As it has now landed safely let's hope for some stunning pictures!
P.S. Also the fact that it will leave behind soil samples to be picked up and returned to Earth by a future robot rover is also incredible!!!I
Also I find the so called skycrane method of landing pretty damned incredible as well, well done NASA all around for pulling this off, but that bouncy balloon one must have been fun to design!

 

[pyan]

Video from the actual landing...

Nasa reveals new video from Mars

 

[.matthew.]

It's clearly faked. You can see the wires

But on a more serious note, there's a 'game' called Rover Mechanic Simulator. It's just released a DLC for the Perseverance.

 

[mosaix]

Stunning videos from the landing sequence...

Nasa releases video of Perseverance rover landing on Mars

Space agency also reveals audio recorded by Perseverance on surface of the red planet

www.theguardian.com

Edit: Snap. Just seen post by @pyan

 

[BigBadBob141]

Fantastic, truly amazing footage, the amount of detail is a wonder to behold, thank you mosaix for sharing this with us, I wonder what Giovanni Schaiparelli, H.G. Wells and Percival Lowell would think of this, it would probably blow their minds!

 

[Boneman]

Fantastic, truly amazing footage, the amount of detail is a wonder to behold, thank you mosaix for sharing this with us, I wonder what Giovanni Schaiparelli, H.G. Wells and Percival Lowell would think of this, it would probably blow their minds!

No one would have believed, in the first years of the 21st Century that Martian affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space....

 

[mosaix]

'Hidden Message' in Mars rover parachute.

'Dare mighty things': hidden message found on Nasa Mars rover parachute

Social media users say message is encoded in red-and-white pattern on parachute

www.theguardian.com

I thought the markings were so it was possible to tell if the parachute was rotating.

 

[Vertigo]

'Hidden Message' in Mars rover parachute.

'Dare mighty things': hidden message found on Nasa Mars rover parachute

Social media users say message is encoded in red-and-white pattern on parachute

www.theguardian.com

I thought the markings were so it was possible to tell if the parachute was rotating.

The need for asymmetric markings might have originally been for such a purpose but then changing them into a code seems like a simple (and neat) modification.