NASA has released the first video of the landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars.
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The video showed the deployment of the parachute and the rover’s touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet.
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Michael Watkins, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said:
“These are really amazing videos … This is the first time we’ve ever been able to capture an event like the landing on Mars.”
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