The head, or mast, will unfold and cameras on the mast will capture more images of the rover’s surroundings to provide a panorama, as well as a “selfie” panorama of the rover. This weekend, the rover will go through some hardware checkouts to make sure everything is working properly, she said. “The rover is doing great and is healthy on the surface of Mars and continues to be highly functional and awesome,” said Pauline Hwang, strategic mission manager for the rover. Some members of the team enjoyed some ice cream at safe social distances outside, many virtual parties were enjoyed and team members slept the best they have in a long time, knowing Perseverance was safe. The teams also shared a little insight about how they celebrated after the landing. And, you know, there’s just a feeling of victory that we’re able to capture these and share them with the world.” It was stunning and the team was awestruck. “This is something that we’ve never seen before. Stehura also reflected on the moment the team saw the image of the rover from the perspective of the descent stage. “You can see it’s near the river delta that we’ve talked about.” “If you look below to the little circle, this was our eventual touchdown point,” said Aaron Stehura, deputy phase lead for entry, descent and landing. “The Beauty of Flight! HiRISE captured this image of on its way to the landing site from over 700 km (435 mi) away!” the HiRISE account tweeted. HiRISE captured this image of Perseverance on its way to the landing site. While the first images returned by the rover Thursday evening were black and white glimpses showing it safely landed on Mars, color images made available Friday show the characteristic red color of the Martian surface. “We can only hope, in our efforts to engineer spacecraft and explore our solar system, that we might be able contribute yet another iconic image to this collection, and I’m happy to say that I’m hopeful that today we can with this.” Steltzner cited iconic space images from the Apollo mission, like Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon, Voyager’s first image of Saturn and the Hubble Space Telescope’s awe-inspiring “Pillars of Creation” photo.
The joy of celebrating a rover landing on Mars Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) Bill Ingalls/NASA The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Members of NASA's Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb.
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