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Mars Ingenuity helicopter's 59th flight was captured by the Perseverance rover's Left Mastcam-Z camera. Credit: Credit: Space ...
In the distance, a twisting plume of red dust - what scientists call a dust devil - spiraled across the landscape near the ...
NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest ...
“You fire this parachute pack out of the back of the ... then cut the cords and fly off to crash away from the rover. “Perseverance will lower itself from that rocket-powered jetpack that ...
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At that point, the backshell and parachute separated from Perseverance and let the descent stage take over, using rocket thrusters and a “sky crane” to gently lower the rover to a smooth landing.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter visited and took images of the crash site of the protective aeroshell and parachute that helped deliver it and the Perseverance rover to the Red Planet.
New images taken by Ingenuity, NASA’s record-breaking Mars helicopter, show Perseverance’s discarded parachute and protective backshell, which helped the rover and helicopter safely land on ...
ORLANDO, Fla., April 28 (UPI) --NASA released images of the parachute and backshell that helped the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter land on Mars last year. The pictures, released ...
The parachute and backshell were previously imaged from a distance by the Perseverance rover. But those collected by the rotorcraft — from an aerial perspective and closer — provide more detail.
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Nasa's Perseverance rover landed on Mars at 20:55 GMT on 18 ... the spacecraft deployed the supersonic parachute to slow its fall. The surface of Mars directly below the rover in the final moments ...