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Looking Up, Looking Down [1]

Cameras aboard the Perseverance rover snapped these images during the final moments of its descent to the Martian surface. An upward-looking camera caught the colorful parachute (the first image of a parachuting Mars lander captured by the spacecraft itself), while a downward-looking camera viewed the rover's landing site, in Jezero Crater. NASA has posted a video of the landing [2] recorded by several on-board cameras. [NASA/JPL/ASU]

Views of the Perseverance Mars rover landing
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[1] https://legacy.stardate.org/astro-guide/gallery/looking-looking-down [2] https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-mars-perseverance-rover-provides-front-row-seat-to-landing-first-audio