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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Perseverance Landing Site from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 27 Feb, 2021
| Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Posted on 02/27/2021 2:05:32 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Seen from orbit a day after a dramatic arrival on the martian surface, the Perseverance landing site is identified in this high-resolution view from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The orbiter's camera image also reveals the location of the Mars 2020 mission descent stage, heat shield, and parachute and back shell that delivered Perseverance to the surface of Mars. Each annotated inset box spans 200 meters (650 feet) across the floor of Jezero Crater. Perseverance is located at the center of the pattern created by rocket exhaust as the descent stage hovered and lowered the rover to the surface. Following the sky crane maneuver, the descent stage itself flew away to crash at a safe distance from the rover, its final resting place indicated by a dark V-shaped debris pattern. Falling to the surface nearby after their separation in the landing sequence, heat shield, parachute and back shell locations are marked in the high-resolution image from Mars orbit.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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02/27/2021 2:05:47 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; America_Right; Art in Idaho; AZ .44 MAG; ...
Pinging the APOD list.
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posted on
02/27/2021 2:06:26 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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posted on
02/27/2021 2:15:31 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
To: MtnClimber
Have you read how close they landed to the target spot?
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posted on
02/27/2021 2:16:23 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
To: MtnClimber
Who is going to pick up all that litter?
To: MtnClimber
Can you see the flag? Asking for Sheila ;-)
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posted on
02/27/2021 2:24:02 PM PST
by
broken_clock
(Go Trump! Still praying.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Have you read how close they landed to the target spot? I have not heard how close they landed to the exact spot planned.
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posted on
02/27/2021 2:24:31 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
The stage crew.
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posted on
02/27/2021 2:25:37 PM PST
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: MtnClimber; Daffynition
Life on Mars ping!
(Who’s looking up?)
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posted on
02/27/2021 2:26:08 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
(The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
To: MtnClimber
Marvin the Martian is verrrry angrrry at this littering. He is looking all over for that Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator!
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posted on
02/27/2021 2:55:08 PM PST
by
SES1066
(I love my Country, but I fear too much Government!)
To: All; MtnClimber
Mars, currently the only planet in the night sky...
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posted on
02/27/2021 2:55:58 PM PST
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ETL
(REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
To: All
Sorry, wrong time of day on that last one...
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posted on
02/27/2021 3:00:54 PM PST
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ETL
(REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
To: ETL
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posted on
02/27/2021 3:20:50 PM PST
by
mosesdapoet
(mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
To: ETL
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posted on
02/27/2021 3:22:06 PM PST
by
mosesdapoet
(mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
To: Ezekiel; MtnClimber; Daffynition
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posted on
02/27/2021 3:30:09 PM PST
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Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: MtnClimber
What a waste of Billions of Dollars.....
There’s nothing more to find out.
There’s no life on a Planet that’s 96% CO2.....
People are screaming that our planet is dying and we have only .04 percent CO2...
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posted on
02/27/2021 3:48:40 PM PST
by
Pez149
(Time to stop saying a theory is fact....)
To: ETL
Right now a line drawn from Sirius through the Belt of Orion points to Mars.
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posted on
02/27/2021 3:58:11 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
I think Elon should send a couple of robot controlled boring machines to Mars. Maybe do the moon first.
Bore tunnels into the crust and put up some doors. See if you can get the tunnels to hold oxygen.
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02/27/2021 4:02:33 PM PST
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DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
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02/27/2021 4:04:36 PM PST
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CJ Wolf
(wwg1wga Godwins; what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them.. )
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