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.
I don't know the scale. If I had to guess I would estimate the horizontal edge to edge of the photo is about 2 to 3 miles.
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...
All we have to do is find some water then. With that much CO2, we just have to plant some tree seeds and wait until they’ve got the O2 level up enough for us!
Good series!
NASA made a big mess there on Mars!
Trash everywhere!
I grant you the red planet badly needs an oxidation event, and the cook time would be long indeed. But we need to go to the unknown, there and everywhere else we can, as fast as we can. They're all stepping stones, not destinations.
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