Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

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ℹ️ Description

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover's entry, descent, and landing suite. The views include a camera looking down from the spacecraft's descent stage (a kind of rocket-powered jet pack that helps fly the rover to its landing site), a camera on the rover looking up at the descent stage, a camera on the top of the aeroshell (a capsule protecting the rover) looking up at that parachute, and a camera on the bottom of the rover looking down at the Martian surface.

The audio embedded in the video comes from the mission control call-outs during entry, descent, and landing.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

💬 Comments on the video

What a time to be alive! Congratulations to NASA and JPL and humans!!!
Author — Mark Rober

Lyudi Mira vami gordyatsya

People of the World are proud of you!
Author — Крафандобриум

Moments like these remind me why life is awesome
Author — Beebo

Talk about advancement in technology.
We are watching an entire different planet, sitting on our couch.
Author — Shahwal Khan

Without a doubt the most incredible footage ever taken of anything imo. Out of the 100 billion plus humans that have ever lived, we are alive for this monumental moment. It’s absolutely surreal and an honor to witness it
Author — Dat Boi

Imagine how honoured people that was involved in the making of Perservance, Seeing a masterpiece that you have touched before landing on another planet.
Author — Wan Azhari

"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but you can't live in the cradle forever" Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
Author — Евгений Воронюк

This is incredible to watch. This has to be the first time I've ever seen hd video from mars. I can't wait to share this with my kids Emma and Ava. To me they are the ones out of this world.
Author — Jhn

Seeing HD video captured on another planet is a surreal experience.
Author — Mitoni

This is the most expensive video on YouTube right now
Author — Sonia’s Way

This is the result of immense hard work.
Author — Sameed Syed

Can’t believe my eyes!
A historic accomplishment 💯
Author — Salamoun TV سلمون

IMO This is a "technicolor" moment of the Space Age, or like how it feels when we remaster early 20th century clips. Those Martian dust moved beautifully!
Author — Gio San Pedro

The most insane part for me is that someone came up with the idea of having a Jetpack slowly decenting the rover on ropes and then let it fly away.. Like what?
Author — The BlueBomber