Watch NASA's Perseverance Rover Land | Video from Mars!

New video from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars.

From the moment of parachute inflation, the camera system covers the entirety of the descent process, showing some of the rover’s intense ride to Mars’ Jezero Crater. The footage from high-definition cameras aboard the spacecraft starts 7 miles (11 kilometers) above the surface, showing the supersonic deployment of the most massive parachute ever sent to another world and ends with the rover’s touchdown in the crater.

Producer Credit: Sonnet Apple
Music: "DMC 12"/Universal Production Music

[maknyc]

I hope that in the future all the mars rovers will be safely kept in a museum on mars.

[thejesuschrist]

NASA is hands down the most GLORIOUS government agency! Praise be!

[Johnny]

We were here when history was written. Unbelievable.

[davidwebb]

congrats to NASA and to everyone who made this Mars landing a success! You are all geniuses! the clarity of the landing footage is unbelievable! thank you very much to you all!

[BeachcomberNZ]

It's great seeing those too young to have been around during the Apollo missions experience the same sense of excitement and awe as we did back then. Even though Man landing on the Moon was a much more amazing thing to have witnessed, Perseverance's landing is definitely up there in the pantheon of Man's greatest achievements. And you lucky younger folks will see something us old timers most likely won't, Man landing on Mars, so remember us when you do!

[steveshut]

This is gonna be the greatest decade for space fans

[MatSpeedle]

Just another amazing achievement for humanity! What a time to be alive! I hope I live to see humans set foot on Mars

[darcybhaiwala]

The folks at NASA seem like such nerdy, wholesome people. Wish I had the math skills to be one of them.

[Cydonius]

Skycrane is like, "Amazon prime package delivered, suicide burn initiated"

[RahulPable]

phenomenal landing of Perseverance rover and NASA Team!! 💗💗

[LoLStaticX]

It took a while for me to realize that this is ACTUAL FOOTAGE of what happened there hundreds of millions of kilometers away! Breathtaking, that’s just some unbelievable engineering involved.

[mathematician]

2 dislikers are Martians who got woken up by the landing

[LucAnderssen]

One of those moments which makes life worth living

[The_VietnAmerican]

Still come back every now and then to watch brilliance! Never gets old.

[robocoppok]

Also with the fact that this was fully autonomous is mind blowing.

[Nick]

What a time to be alive. I am completely obsessed with this adventure!

[Me]

I only wish that Carl Sagan had lived to see this.

[rasser]

One of the best things i ever seen on youtube, and maybe the most real sci-fi moments ever recorded, a landing on a other planet.

[data-guy-]

This is way more exciting than any sci-fi movie.

[mattierenton]

I tingle with sheer excitement every time I watch this. In a time of being apart, a time of loss, let this marvel bring us close together. God bless all xx