Mars

Parachute deployed on the way down! Heat shield separated!

i love this stuff

Powered descent, less than km above surface.

Touchdown confirmed!!

FUCK YEAH!

Your move, Space Force.

I'll bet there's some serious BO in that control room.
It's Miller time.

More like BAwesome.

Greatness indeed. Always lovely to see it happen. Can't wait to see if/when the little drone thing or helicopter deploys.

I got sad that these nerds can't jump up and down and hug each other =|

xpost Yeah, that's a pretty rad feature, hope a hawk doesn't get it.

About to start!

I’ve come nearly 300 million miles, and I’m just getting started. Hear from the team about my picture-perfect landing and what comes next.

LIVE at 2:30 p.m. PST (5:30 p.m. EST/20:30 UTC) https://t.co/fciqGe8GpC pic.twitter.com/5XgclFaGtB

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

Okay the NASA dude at the press conference with the amazing voice tearing up the now unneeded contingency plan and tossing the scraps away is massively hilarious in the best way.

I know this stuff costs a shit-ton of money, but when it all goes to plan... it's pretty awesome.

Phew

Image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing Perseverance descending under its parachute yesterday pic.twitter.com/stLXBP1qi5

— Joey Roulette (@joroulette) February 19, 2021

First image showing Perseverance being lowered by the Skycrane pic.twitter.com/hhqlvBiB6h

— Joey Roulette (@joroulette) February 19, 2021

I'm unreasonably happy that this is taking place during a new presidential administration

Stop everything for 26 seconds and watch this.

Footage, with sound (!) from the surface of another planet.

Just incredible. pic.twitter.com/sEjKcuOJeZ

— James Holland (@James7Holland) February 19, 2021

It's only a matter of time before some jokers start adding goofy shit, so enjoy.

Actually, might be fake/old. Ugh, who can even tell, might be Texas.

that's the curiosity rover

Even as 'old' video from an earlier rover, it is interesting to hear what seems to be martian wind, as well as see the landscape in such sharp detail.

This is a cool story. I wonder when they’re going to fire up the mic/share any recordings.

It's real video from Curiosity but fake sound, apparently.

yeah, see here:

Turns out this is old footage from the Curiosity rover and the sound has been patched in. Should practice more of what I preach to students about fact checking and critical thinking before retweeting. Still a cool video though! https://t.co/jq4g05wnO6

— Jerome Marshall (@MarshallJerome) February 20, 2021

still incredible shot, but....i'd like to wait and see what the Perseverance records!

one of my friends posted al ink to this video and said "now watch all the conspiracists say this is fake"

What if I told you… the Earth blew up eons ago and we already are on Mars?

Microphones on the probe recorded atmospheric wind noises in an effort to measure wind speed (they also recorded noises associated with the probe's equipment).[5] This was the first recording of sound on another planet. The recording would be repeated with Venera 14.

New press conference, including video from the landing, in a few minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQwuYZbA6o

thank you!

Dave Grohl?

oh, it's Gruel

PHEW, that descent video.

great stuff - even though the audio is more of a gimmick imo, it'll sound like wind, won't it?

Even so!

even if the microphone just confirms predicted sound patterns, that confirmation is worth something

Is this IDM https://t.co/NPDnweurel

— Sordan Jnodgrass (@jsnod) February 22, 2021

Incredible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/

Truly is.

The fact that this was accomplished in such times is something else. I know this is obv, but still.

So inspiring.

https://apnews.com/article/mars-rover-parachute-secret-message-75577c274ebddf8eaa4a637d57ef564d?

I’m taking it all in. This is the first 360º view of my home using Mastcam-Z. This dual, high-definition camera system sits atop my mast and has zoom capability. Inspect tiny details of Jezero Crater with the special interactive viewer at https://t.co/roDhWK56gj #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/TAy28PpG73

— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 24, 2021

great! they sure know how to keep us nerds interested :-)

At maximum magnification, it's cool to scan the features along the horizon.

https://lightsinthedark.com/2021/07/23/insight-measures-the-size-of-mars-core/

well this has blown my mind. I thought the reason the reason the atmosphere of Mars was stripped away by solar winds was most likely because the core cooled down and stopped generating a magnetic field.

the way nobody dares to commit to the most logical explanation is interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/24/nasa-curiosity-rover-mars-long-chain-alkanes-rock-sample-discovery