The first 360VR of Mars by NASA's Perseverance Rover with real sounds from the surface (360video 4K)

Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet

The images for panorama obtained by the rover's Navigation Camera (Navcam). The mosaic, which stretches about 4000 pixels width, includes 8 images taken on Sol 0002 (February 20, 2021).

"For those who wonder how you land on Mars – or why it is so difficult – or how cool it would be to do so – you need look no further," said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk. "Perseverance is just getting started, and already has provided some of the most iconic visuals in space exploration history. It reinforces the remarkable level of engineering and precision that is required to build and fly a vehicle to the Red Planet."

A microphone attached to the rover did not collect usable data during the descent, but the commercial off-the-shelf device survived the highly dynamic descent to the surface and obtained sounds from Jezero Crater on Feb. 20. About 10 seconds into the 60-second recording, a Martian breeze is audible for a few seconds, as are mechanical sounds of the rover operating on the surface.

Also released Monday was the mission’s first panorama of the rover’s landing location, taken by the two Navigation Cameras located on its mast. The six-wheeled robotic astrobiologist, the fifth rover the agency has landed on Mars, currently is undergoing an extensive checkout of all its systems and instruments.

"Now we finally have a front-row view to what we call ‘the seven minutes of terror’ while landing on Mars," said Michael Watkins, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which manages the mission for the agency. "From the explosive opening of the parachute to the landing rockets’ plume sending dust and debris flying at touchdown, it’s absolutely awe-inspiring."

A key objective of Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith.

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NASA's Mars Exploration Program
Source images credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech

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[fazeone]

Love that you hear the mecanical sounds of the rover, you even hear a clik sound ! But the Wind gust . Knowing its from another planet !

[Polyyboy]

I never comment on YouTube videos but I'll make an exception. Absolutely amazing. I don't understand people that arnt wowed by this. Amazing job

[Krabatserb]

Amazing! Can't wait to see the first images when the rover starts to drive.

[lachIanmead]

We can barely predict our own weather correctly on earth and yet here we are almost being able to see what sitting on mars would be like, incredible.

[deepankarchakraborty]

1:53 you can hear the mars wind. The sound is very low-pitched because of its thin atmosphere and abundance of heavy gas i.e. co2.

[martinbritz]

Amazing 360degree view, Thank you NASA

[KravenDj]

Is just me or this photos that we actually see are very similar with the ones computer generated when they presented the Rover?
I believe the Rover is there, but to be fair with all this tech, I was expecting much better quality ( sharper, vivid images, an actual video while the rover is moving).
We all know is moving very slow, but they could obtain at least a short video with the Ingenuity helicopter flying around the rover.

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration are we asking for too much?
This short sound clip having this background noise with that click that sounds like a mouse click.

We wanna see a better video, not this dust in our eyes with one photo and 10-15 sound effect with no actual video.

I personally think we could have had a satellite orbiting Mars that could send us better and faster data from the Perseverance.
@NASA & @MARS360 please show us a proper video with sound to see the dust blowing there around.

[gerry]

Hi perseverance! Thanks for giving us this view

[opippy]

my god, there's audio! i love it... i wish we could zoom...

[frankiesfridge]

Can’t wait to see more! 360cam is a amazing invention to use to explore space from home!

[RealRed]

The point of these missions are to provide what it was like before being a hostile environment. Still an amazing view, like a colorless desert, void of life and air. Great work NASA.

[Bossix]

I attached my Dualshock 4 to my phone and something is wrong because I cannot steer it. How do I accelerate? Any advice?

[maxpower]

Video is not loading...there's only a concept image of the probe

[josejulcagarcia]

Por qué no graban a color, por el videos es como a blanco y negro ? Si es una cámara actual 🤔

[weplaytennis]

How is it possible to see all parts of the Rover body, but not the part in which the camera is located ? Look carefully at all parts of the Rover, from all angles, you can see them all, but not the attached part of camera holder. If you look at it carefully, it looks like the camera is above the Rover, but it is not connected to any part of the rover.

[Outaboutdetecting]

No tyre tracks yet.. Guess it hasn't moved since landing?

[angryonion]

I hope that one day we'll get stereoscopic video of the Martian surface.

[cristianovalle]

I just saw it in my Oculus. Incredible! Like being in Mars!!

[momoniu]

awesome vid, well done, so where did the sky crane land???

[brettogden]

Amazing when using a Quest 2 VR headset to view these 360 videos. We just need panoramas in 3D now to get the full perspective ;-)