NASA’s Perseverance rover sends back first colour images from Mars

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Nasa’s Mars Perseverance rover has sent back its first colour images from the surface of the red planet.

The space agency also released a dramatic image of the Mars Perseverance rover being lowered onto the surface of the Red Planet during its landing on Thursday.

The image, unveiled during a press briefing on Friday, was taken by the descent stage that placed the vehicle on the ground.

Adam Steltzner, Mars 2020 chief engineer, told the briefing he hoped the image of the rover landing would become as iconic as the picture of Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969, the image of Saturn seen from Voyager 1 or the Pillars of Creation taken by the Hubble Telescope.

He added: “We can only hope in our efforts to engineer spacecraft and explore our solar system that we might be able to some day contribute yet another iconic image to this collection.

“I am happy to say that I am hopeful that today we can with this.

“This is an image of the rover Perseverance slung beneath the descent stage, its propulsion pack, as it is being lowered to the surface of Mars.

“You can see the dust kicked up by the rover’s engines, we are probably about two metres or so above the surface of Mars.

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Bet the BBC were checking if it had a Tv License then ...

Mike_
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I'm so glad the Evening Standard covered the images with text. Good job... 😅

sajabz
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So colour means not Black and White, just Brown and Beige?

dorleysflir
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How is one so opposed to look at the images, read the text and listen to different information from the narrator, all at the same time??? What are your editors doing??? 😂

sajabz
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Mars, via Hollywood studio .Mars😂😂😂they will be sending men to the moon next.

kqqpdhl
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The like to dislike ratio speaks volumes for the comments below

JamieG.
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That massive carbon footprint of NASA gets us this. lol

andylaauk
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Next we'll be seeing images of 👽🤣

LWNY..
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Excellent. Billions spent to get a vision of what our own planet will look like. Rather than invest in saving the planet look to colonise a planet that's already dead. NASA. Genius.

gingerwaynos
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&YET THE THE HUNGRY ARE NOT FED????

chachatruth
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Oh great the underside of the rover, shame mars is in the way.

peppercornsauce
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Can't believe you are still fooling people with this.

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