Footage of Perseverance rover landing on Mars released by Nasa

Nasa has released first-of-its-kind footage of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars. The video shows the final minutes of last week's descent, up to the point where the rover touches down on Mars' surface. The rover is covered with cameras – including seven dedicated to recording the rover's landing. More than 30GB of information has already been collected from the rover – along with 23,000 images as the vehicle descended.

[goodday]

Just the idea of being able to send and receive video files 200 million miles away is an achievement in itself!

[karinamarcus]

As somebody born long after the moon landing, these are pictures I will never forget

[mesdetails]

Gives me goosebumps just thinking how far this is from us.

[anonymousstout]

When human finally manage to settle a colonies there I hope some of the city are named after all of these rovers

[ElPickleCazio]

Flat Earthers: This CGI isn't very realistic.

[scottworley]

Man the engineering put into this is probably mind boggling

[jpsithlord]

Absolutely mind blowing and what a privilege it is to be alive right now

[borntodoit]

Martian : great parking buddy but if you park there you will get a ticket my friend

[UKSpearo]

And all this was done for less than the cost of the UK's failed track and trace app...

[talisingh]

The universe is far more complex than any mind can comprehend. Even though this is a huge step in science it's the equivalent of a baby learning to lift its head for the first time.

[Novusa]

I don’t want to offend mars but it looks like a chocolate moose

[bokacola]

Incredible footage ! I was even more mindblowed by the fact that soviets engineers did that on Venus in the 70s and took photos of it.

[saadtariq]

If we spend all Military budget the world are spending on space and science. Just think how far humanity are capable to go..

[TPainWhatitDo]

It's impossible to tell the scale of what I am looking at. It looks like it's miles in the air until you see the jets blowing the sand, and then it looks like inches

[mydadsaplumber]

I was the cameraman, hope you enjoy the footage. I also do weddings if you're interested.

[GMoney-B]

This feat and footage is so so unbelievably incredible. However how much more awesome would it have been if we saw additionsl footage from other pods that landed and tumbled like curiosity’s landing, to then track the rover landing. I’m still so exited and thrilled with perseverance landing but man that would have been incredible. How incredible as well would that have been to see that in person. A dark knight rises looking craft with rockets comes over head blasting away, and then lowers a 1-ton civic sized rover from tethers above. Who are the aliens now? Our technology is catching up to sci-fi with this and space x with their dragon capsule styling, and falcon boosters landing themselves in sync. What a wonderful time to be alive.

[jamescatania]

Wow, awe-inspiring. Simply impressive.

[shubhammahale]

I can't believe that nasa was able to get complete clear footage of landing.hats off nasa

[lushhclub]

amazing ..understated and historic video from another planet

[alonkastiel]

I salute you great scientists who enable that. Thank you from all my heart