On Feb. 18, 2021 at 20:55 UTC, the Perseverance rover touched down on the surface of Mars.
The flight down was successful and, by all accounts, picture-perfect. The rover landed in the 50-kilometer-wide Jezero crater, within about a kilometer of the “bull's-eye” targeted.
The first images are now being sent to Earth, and oh my, what images they are.
This one is just spectacular. A jaw-dropper.

This phenomenal shot looking down from the sky crane shows the rover hanging by cables under the cr...
Published on February 19, 2021 11:20