Stuff Of Dreams: 17 Stunning Mars Images From NASA Perseverance Rover Landing

“It gives me goosebumps every time I see it, just amazing,” said Dave Gruel, head of the entry and descent camera team. In the picture above, the surface of Mars directly below NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is seen using the Rover Down-Look Camera in an image acquired.

NASA released the first video of the rover on Mars some time ago. The video was uploaded to the US space agency's official social media handle. In the picture, a portion of a panorama made up of individual images taken by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows the Martian landscape.

NASA also provided short audio footage captured by the microphones on its rover, after its arrival including the first recorded whistling of light gusts of wind on the fourth planet from the Sun. In the picture, the surface of Mars directly below NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is seen using the Rover Down-Look Camera in an image acquired.

NASA said that this Mars mission landing was the first time in history that they could see many angles and feel what it was like to land on the Red Planet. In the picture, NASA's Perseverance rover descends to touch down on Mars in a still image from a video camera aboard the descent stage.

The first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is seen after its landing on Mars.

Prior to landing, the robotic vehicle Perseverance flew across space for nearly seven months, traveling a distance of 293 million miles (472 million km) before penetrating the Martian atmosphere at a speed of 12,000 miles per hour (19,000 km per hour) to begin descending to the planet's surface. In the picture, the surface of Mars directly below NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is seen using the Rover Down-Look Camera in an image acquired.

The deck of NASAs Perseverance Mars rover, featuring the PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry), one of the instruments on its stowed arm, is seen in an image taken by the rover's navigation cameras on Mars.

NASA's stationary landing craft InSight, which arrived on Mars in 2018 to study its deep interior, previously measured seismic signals on the planet that were "acoustically controlled" and then "visualized as sound." In the picture above, a green dot marks where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover landed in Jezero Crater on Mars.

But deputy project manager Matt Wallace said he believes the Martian breeze is the first ambient sound recorded directly on the surface of Mars and reproduced by humans. In the picture, a panorama made up of six individual images taken by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows the Martian landscape.

The descent stage holding NASA’s Perseverance rover can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere, its parachute trailing behind.