After launching in July 2020, NASA’s Perseverance touched down on Mars at around 3:55 PM ET yesterday. Perseverance’s engineering cameras displayed images from the landing site briefly after touchdown. If you’re waiting on high-resolution images for your next PC or smartphone wallpaper, you’ll have a little longer for NASA.
Perseverance will make use of imaging and ultraviolet cameras to track a dig site somewhere inside the Jezero Crater, a 28-mile section of Mars that was an ancient river or lake. NASA believes that a body of water, roughly the size of Lake Tahoe, existed there between 3 and 4 billion years ago. NASA wishes to find signs of ancient microbial life when it drills into the crater’s surface.
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