First Color Photos from Mars Perseverance Rover released by NASA
After a spectacular landing on Mars yesterday by the Mars Perseverance Rover, NASA today released the first high-resolution color image taken by the rover.
Below is the first of several color images sent back from Mars by the Perseverance Rover.
This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover after its landing on Feb. 18, 2021.
In this next image, a high-resolution color Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) captures an image of one of the six aluminum wheels aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.
For this mission, NASA mounted a total of 23 cameras on Perseverance and the landing craft to provide some unprecedented views of the landing.
One of the cameras mounted on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of NASA’s Perseverance rover falling thorough the Martian atmosphere with its parachute trailing behind.
Finally, in this high-resolution still image, you can see the rover being lowered to the surface of Mars. This image is part of a video taken by a camera aboard the descent stage as it performed what NASA calls the sky-crane maneuver.
The full hi-definition videos of the landing, taken by all of the various cameras will be released by NASA in the coming days.
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