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Mike Wehner
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- NASA's newest Mars rover, Perseverance, successfully landed on the Red Planet this week, and it's already sent back some incredible images.
- The latest and greatest snapshot was taken during the rover's gentle descent toward the dusty surface.
- NASA engineers have been hard at work, testing the various instruments and systems of the rover ahead of scientific research which will begin soon.
In the day immediately following NASA's successful rover landing on Mars, the team's engineers and investigators were already going through their lengthy checklists to ensure that everything on the rover was working as intended. The robot has since been given a clean bill of health, and it appears that all of the sensitive instruments and delicate systems vital to the rover's success are working as intended.
Now that the rover has settled and communication between the rover and Earth is established, we're getting to see some of the first photos that it took during the nail-biting "7 minutes of terror" that stood between the rover and a successful touchdown. A single frame of a video that the rover's descent stage captured has just been released, and it's a real stunner.
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