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NASA releases photos of Perseverance rover landing on Mars, saying ‘everything working as expected’
NASA engineers say that its Perseverance rover is in “great shape” and working as planned as it continues its exploration of Mars.
Key points:
- NASA releases its first colour photographs of the Mars mission
- More images will come next week, including video with sound of the landing
- Engineers are downloading data from Perseverance to better understand the Red Planet
Perseverance landed successfully in the Jerezo Crater on Friday (Australian time) as part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission.
It touched down just 2 kilometres south-east from the ancient river delta it was targeting after a seven-month journey of nearly half a billion kilometres.
The US space agency released three new images from some of their 19 cameras that are helping with seven…
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