Successful Landing, Rover Perseverance Send First Photo From Mars

NASA-owned Rover Perseverance (NASA doc)

JAKARTA - NASA's Rover, Perseverance, arrived safely on the surface of Mars. This robot will undergo a mission for the next 6 months to find traces of life on the red planet.

"Perseverance managed to land safely in the Jezero Crater crater after facing a terror of 7 minutes", VOI quoted a NASA report on Friday, February 19.

After successfully landing, Perseverance immediately sent the first images of Mars. The photo reached Earth in 11 minutes since it was taken by Perseverance, considering the distance the signal was sent to so far.

Hello, world. My first look at my forever home. #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/dkM9jE9I6X

- NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 18, 2021

Although many pictures are blurry with dust flying around, the image quality taken by the Perseverance camera is quite good. Given that the advanced NASA-made rover can maneuver in difficult terrain.

Nasa promises that in the next few days, the quality of photos sent by Perseverance will be even better. Because NASA does provide many sophisticated cameras in Perseverance.

"This is the most sophisticated rover the space agency has ever sent to the Red Planet. It will collect data and look for signs of ancient life in the crater that was a lake 3.9 billion years ago", NASA explained.

Perseverance became the second spacecraft after Hope from the United Arab Emirates who had just arrived a few days earlier, followed by Tianwen-1 from China. Hope is limited to researching orbit while Tianwen-1 will drop the rover in the coming months.

This state-of-the-art rover also contains a mini Ingenuity helicopter hidden underneath the Perseverance. A few months after landing on Mars, this 1.8 kg helicopter will take off and become the first propeller-driven vehicle to fly on another planet.