NASA releases new video of Perseverance Mars landing

The video shows the final moments of Perseverance’s entry, descent, and landing (EDL), known as the ‘seven minutes of terror’ by the scientists and researchers that have invested years of their professional lives getting the mission to that make-or-break point. Known affectionately as ‘Percy’, the rover is the largest and most complex ever sent into space, weighing in at over 1,000kg.

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From the moment of parachute inflation, the camera system covers the entirety of the descent process, showing some of the rover’s vertical journey to its landing zone in Mars’ Jezero Crater. The footage from high-definition cameras aboard the spacecraft starts 11 kilometres above the surface, showing the supersonic deployment of the largest parachute ever deployed in space, and ends with the rover’s touchdown in the crater.