This is what Mars looks like – a panorama

NASA has released stunning video images of the rover lander landing on Mars and the first audio recordings from the surface of the Red Planet. NASA said such recordings had never been made before. “These videos are amazing,” said NASA Administrator Mike Watkins. “We’ve all seen them so many times over the weekend.”

The videos, already clicked a million times, show the last eleven kilometers of the road of perseverance (in German roughly translated: endurance). For example, you can see how the parachute opens. Also shown is the surface of the planet the rover will land on.

The microphones on board the probe did not send any usable data from the landing – but it did later send the first audio recordings ever from the surface of Mars, she said. You can hear something on them that sounds like a gust of wind. New photos have also been published.

The rover, known as Percy, said on Twitter: “Now that you see Mars, listen to it. Get a pair of headphones and hear the first sounds one of my microphones makes.” “We now finally have a look in the front row of what we call” seven minutes of terror “during the landing on Mars,” NASA Administrator Watkins said excitedly. ” This indicates the time when the spacecraft has to brake sharply in order to be able to safely anchor the rover to the neighboring planet on Earth, using a parachute, among other things.

Previously, the small Ingenuity helicopter, which was traveling to Mars in the rover, sent its first case report to the Control Center in Pasadena, California. According to NASA experts, it appears to be “working perfectly”. Creativity (in German: creativity) is still tied to the bottom of perseverance, as it’s currently being charged. In 30 to 60 days, this tiny helicopter will explore Mars from a bird’s eye view. It will be the first flight of a plane over another planet.

The Rover Perseverance rover, which weighs about 1,000 kilograms and the size of a small car, landed Thursday – 203 days after the flight and 472 million kilometers – with a risky maneuver in a dry lake called Jezero Crater on Mars. You’ll achieve perseverance on this former lake of about 45 kilometers in diameter over the next two years.

It took eight years to develop and build the rover, which cost the equivalent of 2.2 billion euros. He is supposed to research traces of past microbial life on Mars and research the climate and geology of the planet. Perseverance is the fifth spacecraft that NASA brings to Mars – Curiosity last arrived there in 2012. Overall, however, half of all Mars missions launched worldwide have yet to succeed.