Nasa reveals new colour images of Mars from Perseverance rover - video

[mysteryowl]

Source: The Guardian/US

Adam Steltzner, the chief engineer on the Perseverance project, said his team was ‘overwhelmed with excitement and joy’ as he revealed new colour photographs beamed back from Nasa’s Perseverance rover.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2021/feb/19/nasa-reveals-new-colour-images-of-mars-from-perseverance-rover-video

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This is so amazing and exciting!

Way to go NASA!!

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Quite an engineering feat, a whole new and different era in NASA history.

[COL Mustard]

2. Awesome! I'm Glad To Pay Taxes To Support Things Like This!

[NurseJackie]

12. This size comparison photo/illustration is interesting...

... and it just makes me even MORE impressed that they were able to land the thing safely with their "sky-crane" technology. That's just amazing!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Here are the stills that were shown

As it was being lowered to the surface -



On the surface (first color version of the first image shown after landing) -



Image of right front tire -



ETA - here is one of NASA's tweets with a short video with highlights of the landing (including simulations of what it would generally be looking like as it was lowered to the surface) -

Link to tweet

TEXT

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
@NASAPersevere
Miss my landing? Catch the highlights below.

Send us your own highlights too. Share your pictures and video using #CountdownToMars.
11:51 PM · Feb 18, 2021

[flying rabbit]

4. K&R for science!

[True Dough]

5. I'm glad the rover didn't break down

It would have taken such a long time for the AAA to get there and get it running again.

[Stuart G]

6. There are 2 miracles here: 1.Perseverance on Mars, 2. Pictures sent back for us to see.

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Of course we all know about this achievement: landing a vehicle on the planet Mars.

But think about the other one: 2. We can see the color pictures of that vehicle on the planet Mars.

Just like the landing on the moon. Almost in real time, we could see the men walking on the moon.
(well it was real time)..In the 50s we dreamed of such things. But we are living in a futuristic world,
and I am communicating now on a computer that was only envisioned in the early 60s, when we saw
huge rooms full of equipment that represented ..."computers."....

Of course, if you didn't live then, you wouldn't have those visions, but I do. And some others here
also have those visions...

Way to go NASA!!

[electric_blue68]

15. I'd add a 3rd - that Curiosity is -still- roving about there, too!

My idea of computers would be from the earliest '60's maybe '59 but they were still quite big back then, too.

Saw the Moon Landing in real time. And as you said now there's color Mars photos (after I followed the landing yesterday) on a smart phone that basically is a small computer!

[iluvtennis]

7. Wow, so exciting. Have always loved space exploration and NASA. Thanks for the post. nt

[riversedge]

8. Related: San Francisco City Hall is illuminated in red to celebrate today's historic landing of @NAS

San Francisco City Hall is illuminated in red to celebrate today’s historic landing of @NASAPersevere
on the surface of Mars: http://go.nasa.gov/37vres2

Link to tweet

?s=20

[electric_blue68]

16. 👍 Last night The Empire State Building also lit up in red.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Not too sure about this Mars picture

[NBachers]

10. I got a big laugh out of that!

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. There ARE Martians!!!

[denbot]

11. What, no Narwhal's?

Nooooooooo!, fuck no!

[Polybius]

14. Awesome

Anything out of the ordinary show up?

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

17. So Mars has a blue sky, why were they hiding this from us for so many years?