NASA unveils stunning new video of Mars landing

we are super excited to actually share with all of you video imagery of perseverance landing on the surface of mars please roll the video conflict indicate shoot deploy the navigation has confirmed that the parachute has deployed and we are seeing significant deceleration in the velocity our current velocity is 450 meters per second at an altitude of about 12 kilometers from the surface of mars heat shield set press advance has now slowed to subsonic speeds and the heat shield has been separated this allows both the radar and the cameras to get their first look at the surface current velocity is meters per second and an altitude of about 10 km 9 and a half kilometers above the surface now filter converge velocity solution 3.3 meters per second altitude 7.4 kilometers now has radar lock on the ground current velocity is about 100 meters per second 6.6 kilometers of the surface perseverance is continuing to descend on the parachute we are coming up on the initialization of terrain relative navigation and subsequently the priming of the landing engines our current velocity is about 90 meters per second at an altitude of 4.2 kilometers ovf salad we have confirmation that the land division system has produced a valid solution and part of terrain relative navigation rhyming pba is nominal we have timing of the landing engines back shell set current velocity is 83 meters per second at about 2.6 kilometers from the surface mars we have confirmation that the back shell has separated we are currently performing the divert maneuver current velocity is about 75 meters per second at an altitude of about a kilometer off the surface of mars here in safety bravo we have completed our terrain relative navigation current speed is about 30 meters per second altitude about 300 meters off the surface of mars we have started our constant velocity accordion which means we are conducting the sky crane about to conduct the flyclean maneuver skytrain maneuver has started about 20 meters off the surface we're getting signals from mro tango delta touchdown confirmed perseverance faithfully on the surface of mars ready to begin seeking the sands of past life the first thing we did after we deployed the mass is we started imaging the surface so the next slide shows one of our first images from the cameras this image is actually in low resolution mode so it's one quarter of the full resolution of the of the camera so it's been it's been shrunk down but you can see right there the vista that we're seeing this is uh the rover obviously on mars and you can see some of the material that landed on the deck uh but everything looks in good shape and so we're using these images to inspect not only the vehicle but the surface around us the next slide was the view down towards the surface you can see the wheels there this is the same surface you just saw in the edl cam videos you could see some of the scouring that the rocket plumes did for us clean it off make it nice and clean so we can take pictures of it and dust it off for us the next slide shows a view looking out towards the south and this just an amazing scene here this is it this is mars where we're here in our place that we're going to be exploring over the next months and coming years and it's just really exciting to see um you know these scenes look familiar to us you know they look earth-like in a sense you know you see them the mountains back there and the rocks and things it just really is the surface of an alien world and uh we just arrived you can also see some more scouring there over on the right uh the next image looks over towards the west you can see the delta out there on the horizon and again more scouring from the rocket plumes and then we take all of these images and we stitch them together into panoramas and so that next the next frame shows the full panorama from the nav cam stitched together we're still working out the calibration of things so this is uh you know approximate color but it just gives you a feel for the vista here that we we're our new environment that we're going to explore uh and we're hoping uh everyone will join us uh in seeing these images where today we're going to be releasing a whole slew of raw images it's been a fire hose of data basically we have thousands of images already from the edl cameras nav cams you've seen the haz cams and so we will be putting those out on the website today for people to download and process yourself or just look at the great picture hi everyone george stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the abc news youtube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our channel and don't forget to download the abc news app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching

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Length: 5min 48sec (348 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 22 2021