February 22, 2021 · 22:24
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Mars Delivers

In case you somehow missed it, here’s what it looks like to land on Mars:

And as if that wasn’t enough, for the first time ever we could hear what the wind sounded like on another planet:

And while that’s the icing on the cake for the clever critters who sent Perseverance, she’s also getting to work, raising her mastcam and antennae, sending panoramas back home so that the scientists can start to see what they want to look at and the drivers can figure out how to safely get there:

It was indeed a day of wonders. Welcome to Mars. Again.

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One response to “Mars Delivers”

  1. Jemima Pett
    February 23, 2021 at 03:29

    And… I remembered at 8 pm my time… an hour late. I caught up eventually, though 🙂

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